Word: fath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PATH FASHION HOUSE of Paris, which carried on under Widow Genevieve Fath after Jacques Fath died in 1954, is going out of dress business. Once ranked with Dior in sensational creations, House of Fath will sell only such accessories as hosiery, gloves, perfumes...
Every day. morning and afternoon, the visitors seethed back and forth across the small Right Bank area where most of the 30 important houses of Paris' haute couture are concentrated. They sat through the collections of Patou and Heim, of Balmain and Fath. But most were waiting for the showing of a plump, pink, innocent-looking son of a fertilizer manufacturer. His name: Christian Dior. This year Dior celebrates his tenth year as a couturier, and every buyer in the trade has learned that it is unwise to buy in quantity before seeing the collection of Christian Dior...
Died. Jacques Fath, 42, French dress designer who parlayed a one-room Paris salon into a $2,000,000-a-year business; of leukemia; in Paris. One of the three giants of postwar Paris fashion (the others: Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain), Fath branched into the U.S. market in 1948 with a ready-to-wear line sold in 200 cities by such stores as Lord & Taylor, I. Magnin, Neiman-Marcus...
...suggesting that Adenauer hire Jacques Fath as a consultant, but a "new look" will make a lot of Europeans, and Americans too, breathe easier whether they have reason to or not. Malcolm D. Rivkin...
...tall, bosomy Fath model was roundly applauded each time she appeared. "But it was as if the crowd was making a last stand and already knew it was licked," admitted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard...