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Word: hamilburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashion is an old one. Hollywood, with a lag between picture production and release, has long had to anticipate (or rise above) the coming styles. Its designers-led by M. G. M.'s Adrian-have a cachet of their own. Last week Hollywood Agent Mitchell J. (for Joseph) Hamilburg, who sold $1,000,000 worth (retail) of Deanna Durbin frocks to the trade in 1938, was organizing a fashion guild of studio designers to dictate the mode. Main drawbacks to Hollywood as a complete substitute for Paris (it has influenced Paris) were its stagy tastes, its distance from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLOTHES: Home Styles | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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