Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story: Catherine the Great (Miss Bankhead), with the help of a cooney chancellor (Charles Coburn), is governing Russia after a fashion, but not firmly enough to prevent conspiracies against her life. A wild-eyed young soldier (William Eythe) rides three days & nights to warn her of one. Catherine, more impressed by his bright pink condition at the end of the ride than by his loyalty, rigs him out in an ice-cream uniform, promotes him through the military ceiling, moistens him thoroughly with champagne, subjects him to a dazzling blitzkrieg of carnivorous kisses, and turns him into a hopelessly bemused...
...Scottish border tweed suit (three-inch redline squares against a light brown background) which cost him some 26 of his annual allotment of 48 clothing coupons. A West End tailor, moodily studying the cloth and cut, predicted that His Majesty's new ensemble would be a fashion setter...
Josephine Baker, toast-colored toast of the prewar Paris stage, who weathered the Nazi occupation (despite one death report) in Morocco, put on a private fashion show to let Paris friends see the too-chichi gowns and hats she will wear on tour with E.N.S.A. (British U.S.O.). Her favorite getup: a "Russian" costume (see cut) featuring a white satin tunic, black velvet trimming, a train...
Paulina Karpovskaya Zhemchuzhina, wife of Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, acted as a judge at a Moscow fashion show. The no-fuss-&-feathers prizewinners were designs suitable for mass production...
...dabbler in philosophic fantasy, he is also a little stifled there: the Pirandello in him is always edging out the Pinero. In Foolish Notion Barry has held to the drawing room, but has carefully thrown open its windows to the mysterious night air. The result is that child of fashion and fantasy. a jeu d'esprit...