Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When John Fairchild headed Women's Wear Daily's Paris bureau, he was dubbed "Blouson Noir" ("Black Jack et," or "the tough one") by irritated fashion designers, who even crossed to the other side of the street when they saw him coming. As a trade-publication reporter, the supposedly genteel Fairchild had turned out to be an acerbic, outspoken critic of fashions. If Paris designers were relieved when he left in 1960 to become editor of Women's Wear, it was the New York fashion world's turn to be surprised. As New York Times Fashion...
Hand Signals. As the second and third Syrian positions were literally overrun in the same headlong fashion, Colonel Arie,*the column commander, was wounded. Major Rafi, who leaped into the turret of the lead tank to take his place, was killed instantly as the column blasted its way through the final...
...Alexander's copies, made from the same French fabrics and virtually impossible to tell from the originals, would sell for $100 to $800. Neither store makes any profit, what with total costs for buying, producing and promoting a collection running up to $350,000. Says Alexander's Fashion Director Lorrie Eyerly: "The price is not only below the cost of the original, but below our cost of making...
...arrival of this year's collection followed the usual giddy ten-day whirl from fashion house to fashion house in Paris in late July and early August. From headquarters at the swanky Hotel Georges V, Alexander's buying delegation stepped out each morning for buying appointments at 7:30, then rushed to catch the shows, and often worked late into the night studying color samples. There is an elaborate air of secrecy surrounding the whole thing. Ohrbach's buyers, for example, made a point of staying at the less conspicuous Elysee-Parc Hotel, because...
...just to make sure that overseas bartenders-turned-publicans learn how to mind their milds and bitters, the firm stands ready with a stable of 20 trained barmaids to "train local staffs in typical English fashion." According to Partner Shafran, they come in two styles-"the big-breasted, gin-breath barmaid in a tight black dress, and the pink-cheeked, lusty but innocent type...