Word: veneziani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-fashion trade, most of Italy's top designers showed off their spring & summer creations last week in Florence's Grand Hotel. As usual, the Italians were at their best in sportswear and play clothes, and none was better than Milan's blonde, fortyish Jole Veneziani, a onetime furrier who went into dress-designing only six years...
Where most designers show only a handful of originals, industrious Mme. Veneziani startled everybody by reeling off so many -(130, mainly sportswear) that she had her mannequins parade four and five at once to save time. When she was done, even her rivals cast aside professional jealousy to swarm around her, crying, "Bravissimo!n and bussing her plump cheek. Overcome, Veneziani broke down and wept. Said a California department-store buyer: "The entire American sports world should have been here...
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