Word: schiaparelli
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...styles have a shortage of seductive names. Whereas U.S. stores once unblushingly publicized a Schiaparelli pocket, a Vionnet neck or a Mainbocher waistline in a little $8.75 number, this year they may have to be satisfied with "a deep armhole cut" or equivalent. Exception: fall colors (so numerous that no one color predominates) have names like rose champagne, maharaja bronze, tissue-paper blue...
...with Paris, where she had hurt her ankle in the blackout and food was frightfully dear, Dressmaker Elsa Schiaparelli arrived by Clipper in New York...
Engaged. Marisa ("Gogo") Schiaparelli, 21, beauteous, blue-eyed daughter of Couturière Elsa Schiaparelli; and Robert Berenson, 27, Grace Line travel executive, second cousin of famed expatriate Art Critic Bernard Berenson; in Manhattan...
...Eiffel Tower is not displaced by the Empire State Building," cried Mme. Schiaparelli early last month, at a Los Angeles Junior League luncheon. Fashioneers were not amused. In Manhattan last fortnight, Mme. Schiaparelli made her farewell speech-on the same day that delayed news came from Paris that Lucien Lelong's "corporative reorganization" of the fashion industry had been completed...
...midseason collection, without any help from Paris, was full of excitement about fine textiles and exclusive gewgaws that she had been able to coax out of hitherto mass-production-minded U. S. manufacturers. Said Mr. Gimbel: "The Paris of the old days is not the Paris under totalitarian government. Schiaparelli is either misguided-or under the influence of the Vichy Government...