Word: schiaparelli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers to the job of making Wallis Simpson's trousseau. M. Mainbocher's corset fillip, no matter what else could be said for it. was another affirmation that the world still looked to Paris for a way to live, even as it was looking elsewhere...
Such reports from the opening of Paris fashion shows have grated on Nazi ears for the past fortnight as Schiaparelli followed Mainbocher, and Paquin, Patou and Balenciaga demonstrated that, whoever runs the world, Paris intends to go on making his wife's clothes...
...idea of life on Mars got a big push in 1877 when the Italian Astronomer Schiaparelli* first pictured the vague markings called "canals." Schiaparelli actually called them canali, which means "channels," but was translated "canals." Rivers cut channels, but canals are built by intelligent agents. In the U. S., Astronomer Percival Lowell picked up the canal idea with enthusiasm, claimed he could see them clearly. His theory: the canals were built to bring water from the melting ice of the polar caps, by Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than...
...Uncle to Paris Dress-Designer Elsa Schiaparelli...
Spring Fashions (Sat. 3:15 p. m. NBC-Blue) discussed from Paris by Modistes Chanel and Lelong. At 7:00 p. m., CBS reviews Schiaparelli's, Patou's and other showings from Paris...