Word: schiaparelli
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...soldier swapped a 2-lb. can of coffee for a bright scarlet dress in Schiaparelli's shop. Eyeing the coffee greedily, the Schiaparelli manager moaned: "Vous êtes dur, monsieur...
...pretty Princess Galitzine is starting a new made-to-order house on the strength of the Americans' arrival. Here made-to-order dresses cost about $90. They still use copies of Schiaparelli prints, but no new fabrics can be had from the north. . . . The Baronne de Reutern is designing amusing false jewellery. Since metals are out of reason here, she has used such mediums as horsehair and coloured silk cords on which to display the stones...
...Park Avenue drawing rooms and 52nd Street nightclubs he cut an exquisite figure. Always heavily perfumed, he was in the habit of remarking complacently: "I smell to heaven." He carried his own special brand of tea in a silver snuffbox to drink in nightclubs. He wore evening scarves by Schiaparelli, delighted in yanking up his pants leg and displaying his solid-gold garter clasps, studded with his four initials. He took up golf once but dropped it immediately, after finding himself in a locker room with a crowd of muscular, boisterous players. "It was too goddamn manly," he said...
...Elsa Schiaparelli peered into the future, said of skirt-lengths: "It always depends on the legs...
...McNeil occasionally acts as M.C. for local amateur talent, puts on regular talks by State officials, spins her own newscasts. She also writes and reads advertising scripts for local stores. Admirers think she can make a dress sale on Pierre's Main Street sound like a Schiaparelli opening...