Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharp and lurid picture of wartime Paris-a city dancing with false gaiety on a rumbling volcano-reached the U.S. last week. It came from the New York Times' former Paris fashion correspondent, Kathleen Cannell, who arrived in Manhattan on the rescue-ship Gripsholm. She alone of all the diplomats, wounded veterans and chichi expatriates aboard, was fresh from the capital city of a captive nation...
...people are underfed and ill-clothed, declining into anemia. Yet Parisian theatres are crowded; in the swank salons, well-dressed matrons applaud two new young pianists-the Paderewskis of tomorrow. The Opera is sold out half an hour after the box office opens. Couturiers put on four splashy fashion shows a year...
...Artist. Gladys Rockmore Davis, 43, is the ten-year wonder of U.S. art. It took her just that long to paint her way from a fashion illustrator to a top-flight easel painter with a reputation as "one of the very few American women artists who can paint a nude that does not resemble a Bonwit Teller manikin...
Plimpton's Passion. Plimpton built a $100,000 rink in New York City and introduced his sport to Newport, where polo on roller skates became a fashion. England also rolled passionately on Plimpton's invention. By 1876, Brighton had six rinks. Members of Parliament skated daily at Prince's Club...
...Modern School of Fashion and Design invites the V-12 Unit and the NROTC to a private dance at the Hotel Statler tomorrow evening...