Word: schiaparelli
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Women's adoption of the long, unfitted jacket as part of their so-called "style wardrobe" is a usurpation of the traditional privilege of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton men to wear their coats half-way down to their knees, Elsa Schiaparelli, the world's most famous fashion designer, admitted yesterday...
Famous for her bizarre creations in the way of hats and gowns, Mme. Schiaparelli nominated for her favorite men's attire plain, old, dependable tweeds. "But not the lifeless ones," she cautioned, "and a good bright tie makes one feel so good...
...thin atmosphere it still has, perhaps containing a little oxygen. And Mars has a little water, as the white polar caps show. These caps melt in the Martian summer, accumulate again in winter. The excitement over possible Martian inhabitants was started in the 19th Century by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli, who described hazy streaks on the surface, called them canali. This Italian word means "channels," was erroneously translated "canals," which connotes intelligent engineering...
...Schiaparelli, in the U. S. for a fall lecture tour sponsored by CBS's Columbia Artists, Inc., was designing a dozen tour costumes, to be copied by select manufacturers...
...Francophile Edna Woolman Chase, Harper's Bazaar's blue-haired, dynamic Carmel Snow, declared they were enthusiastic about what the U. S. woman will wear this fall. But the fall styles were not made in Manhattan. Their keynote was struck in Paris last May-by Schiaparelli, by Lanvin, by Chanel, Molyneux, LeLong, etc.-in their regular midseason openings, sparsely attended but well covered by cable and sketch. Since then Paris has fallen. The U. S. dress business will soon need more guidance. Otherwise it will not know what to make...