Word: seamstresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Designing for children is no pushover. Even in Paris, "Babies have no necks," sighed Cardin's top tot seamstress last week. "They have no waists, and no chests." Her boss, however, sees his work cut out for him, and no way to avoid it. Haute couture for children, Cardin explains, "was a perfectly logical, even indispensable step. The couturier's primary preoccupation is to impose his style. I did it first with women, then with men. It was only natural...
...daughter of a Baptist minister, she was raised by a widowed seamstress when the burden of nine children became too much for her father. After a teen-age marriage and divorce, she determined to seek a higher education. She worked her way through all-black Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., as a dishwasher and laundress, and financed her law studies at the University of Wisconsin with jobs as a library assistant and nurse's aide. In 1952 and 1953 she studied international law at London University...
That crusade originated in Florence, where Zeffirelli was born 44 years ago. The illegitimate son of a textile salesman and a seamstress, he grew up, he recalls, "amongst dresses and dressmakers." At nine, he was taken to see Wagner's Walküre-and got lost onstage after the performance. In a sense, he has been swallowed up in scenery ever since his one-man student production at the University of Florence led Luchino Visconti to sign him for a bit part in Crime and Punishment. Zeffirelli then talked his way into assistant directorships with the maestros of postwar...
Vuillard believed that it was not how much you saw but how well you looked, and his living-room studio provided him with material enough-including a passing parade of models. One who caught his eye was a graceful seamstress who arrived for work one day wearing a scarf designed to protect and cleverly disguise the fact that she had the mumps. And then there was his mother, who lived to be 90. "My muse," he called her. He painted her bent over the sewing machine, stitching before the window, feeding her grandchild, and watering the flowers. Her hair changed...
...daughter Clare in 1910 was attended by four members of the British Cabinet, including Churchill, then Home Secretary. It was also attended by several bill collectors, who were seated by themselves in a downstairs parlor. Frewen had, however, paid cash for his daughter's wedding gown. The seamstress who delivered it that morning had refused to accept a check...