Word: salons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...houses and shows his collections at his own dignified pace (his butler serves ice water instead of champagne). Last week two audiences-one of society women and one of fashion pros, both as carefully hand-picked as the members of a royal wedding-were admitted to the off-white salon on Fifth Avenue, sat reverently on couches and little blue chairs to watch six mannequins parade in 150 designs while the aging master explained them in a well-modulated whisper...
Unable to sing a note for three years, he became editor of the French edition of Vogue, and was so successful in the fashion world that in 1930 he opened his own salon. Mainbocher came to New York in 1939, where he profited by the wartime blackout of France as the fashion center of the world. Today he is America's sole exemplar of the big-name custom-only couturier. Unlike such top U.S. designers as Norman Norell and James Galanos, he does not distribute his models through department stores; anyone who wants to buy a Mainbocher...
...name and informs her that she will be sent an invitation to view the collection - a stall that gives the office staff a chance to check her social background and financial status. When she arrives for her appointed showing, there are seldom more than two other customers in the salon...
...When the widow of Italian Virtuoso Ferruccio Busoni heard one of his Welte rolls being played some months after his death, the effect was so intense that she ran from the music salon screaming "Ferruccio! Ferruccio...
Then last week Yves St. Laurent threw open his salon and voila! the priestesses of high fashion rocketed into orbit. "It made a week of life on gilt ballroom chairs worthwhile," wrote the Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard. "St. Laurent has always known that what modern women really want to look like are little boys...