Word: hatbox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earned less in a week there than I can in one day in London." So Maggie packed her hatbox and flew home to London, leaving other aspirants with a word of advice: "It is great prestige to work for Dior. I am fed up with prestige. You can't bank...
...lets his shirt hang out all the time. Jaques is in sandals. Sir Oliver Martext, garbed as a Victorian vicar, periodically bicycles on and off stage blowing a hideous horn. Rosalind, in disguise, sports a hunter's red cap; while her companion Celia appears with a white boa, hatbox, and birdcage, and even paints her eyelashes using a pool for a mirror...
...created for the First Lady. When Jackie admitted that she had indeed bought a Givenchy dress, U.S. couturiers paled, saw visions of her shopping at foreign salons while in Paris this week, warned that Manhattan's Seventh Avenue might turn into a depressed area. As the hatbox-sized hullabaloo raged, an Italian designer kicked up another fuss by unchivalrously knocking Jackie's knees. "The First Lady of America is elegant," said he in the Roman magazine Oggi, "but she should wear longer skirts. The kneecap is always anti-esthetic even when-and this is not the case with...
...performance, Jackie went backstage to thank the company, heard one member exult: "She has made our season." Days were devoted to fashion fittings in her suite, with the dresses dis patched through the lobby under canvas by her couturier, Oleg Cassini. Also under wraps: a massive Mr. John hatbox that surely contained Jackie's Easter bonnet. At odd moments during the week, she inspected the art galleries and curio shops that abound about her Madison Avenue hotel, but her only known purchase was an antique French cachepot...
Becket does not succumb to the temptation to build drab hatbox or birthday-cake buildings; he tries to give each client a distinctive building. Yet he does not kowtow to his client's every wish: when a New York company asked him to design a building similar to Capitol Records', he turned it down on the ground that the building would not fit its needs...