Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bourgeoisie," it often resolves itself into summary, and nothing more. The biographical vignettes, of Disraeli, Wilde and others are striking and original, but in several instances questionable; and there is occasionally a suspicious naivete in the point of view. This may well be a defect of the stylist and not the historian. The writing of the book certainly is marred by a sort of false urbanity and lacks the flair for effortless insinuation such as Lytton Strachey displayed in treating of the same period. Despite these minor shortcomings, Mr. Wingfield-Stratford has probably written, the most comprehensive and enjoyable...
Associated in Apparel Arts with Publisher Weintraub, a stylist of international reputation, are David A. Smart, president, experienced publisher of tradepapers, and Editor Arnold Gingrich, an energetic youth who sleeps twelve hours on alternate nights, works 36 hours between. It is said that Publisher Weintraub is the brain, President Smart the heart, Editor Gingrich the voice of Apparel Arts...
Artist Sert's first wife was a great-grandniece of Composer Franz Liszt. She accompanied Stylist Gabrielle Chanel to Hollywood last spring. The present Senora Sert was once Princess Mdivani of the much-married Mdivanis of Georgia (South Russia). (Brother David married Cinemactress Mae Murray; Brother Serge married Cinemactress Pola Negri, then Soprano Mary McCormic; Brother Alexis married Socialite Louise Astor Van Alen...
...Manhattan famed Stylist Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, who is on her way from her Paris shops to Hollywood to design clothes for cinemactresses, received newsgatherers. She was attired in red sports clothes and wore a five-strand pearl necklace, ten bracelets. She said, among other things: "The perfume which many women use is not mysterious. Women are not flowers. Why should they want to smell like flowers? I like roses, and the smell of the rose is very beautiful, but I do not want a woman to smell like a rose...
...second, sent it to Atlanta last week to photograph Robert Tyre ("Robot") Jones Jr., world's best golfer, making his shots. George Sargent, onetime P. G. A. president, superintended the photographing. He said that pictures would also be taken of England's Joyce Wethered, foremost female stylist, and 'of graceful old Harry Vardon. The pictures will be distributed to P. G. A. members to teach them how to teach...