Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counter-Revolution. As with most revolutions, this one bred its own counterrevolution. Last week, in the perfumed air of a pale blue room on the third floor of Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue, one act of that counterrevolution was being staged. There Designer Sophie Gimbel was displaying her fall collection of 125 models. In the world of high fashion, it was a notable event...
...collection constituted Sophie Gimbel's conception of the New Look. As head of Saks's famed Salon Moderne, its custom dress shop, Sophie is one of the top U.S. designers. Moreover, as the U.S. dress industry is well aware, she has a razor-keen sense, as sharp as any other designer's, of what U.S. women will finally choose to wear out of the hodge-podge of new styles. As far as the great mass-producing dress shops of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue are concerned, that makes Sophie a fashion chart. What she displays one week...
...designing, selling and overseeing the 300 fitters, seamstresses, etc. in her workshop, Sophie is paid $34,000 a year by her boss, who is also her husband-Adam Gimbel, president of Saks and cousin of Bernard Gimbel, president of the parent company, Gimbel Brothers...
Miss O'Hara, outraged, sets the house psychiatrist (Porter Hall) on Kris Kringle, but "Mister Macy" calls off the goons when it develops that Kris has turned one of the most lucrative good-will tricks in commercial history. "Mister Gimbel" hurriedly returns the compliment-he and Mister Macy are even photographed shaking hands-and the whole Manhattan department-store trade glows with the new love-your-neighbor policy...
...deadly, premeditated dullness of financial ads last week brought scornful shouts from two premeditating wits. In an address before the New York Financial Advertisers Association, Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, ad boss of Gimbel Bros., snapped that it was time banks stopped such "pious pronouncements" as these: "a great institution founded on the cornerstone of service and courtesy"; "the challenge of a new era demands the ultimate in achievement." Said she: "One bank says 'You are invited to use the name of this bank on your checks. It is a symbol of strength and security.' What a lot of malarkey...