Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says Harper's Bazaar Editor Nancy White, "everyone in the business has to read Women's Wear every...
...varied the once lackluster trade journal with sometimes effusive, sometimes cutting personality sketches of socially prominent people. The result has been a good deal of creative, if sometimes spurious, gossip. Fairchild has thus been a large factor in fusing the fashion world with the jet set. Women's Wear also runs pungent theater reviews by Martin Gottfried and hippie book reviews by Peter Prescott, whose father Orville reviews more squarely for the New York Times. Circulation has risen in the past six years by 30%, to 65,000. "Fairchild is responsible for reaching a totally new audience," says Fashion...
Banished Offenders. Because of its growing influence, Women's Wear has had a noticeable effect on the fashion business. Manufacturers are quick to adopt such Fairchild slogans as "Real-girl" and "Sportive," "Young Arrogant" and "Cool Chic." "When they started bringing out 'sportive girdles,' I couldn't believe it," says Fairchild. But the Women's Wear role of self-appointed arbiter of fashion is often resented. "I dispute their right to judge fashion before it happens," says Designer Pauline Trigere, "and they do it all the time...
Designers who fall out with Women's Wear soon find themselves being sniped at by the paper or banned from its pages. Norman Norell, currently involved in a feud with Fairchild, had his fall collection overlooked by Women's Wear. Designer Mollie Parnis is completely ignored because she failed to give Women's Wear an exclusive on Lady Bird Johnson's wardrobe. "Fairchild borders on genius," she says, "if he were not so petty...
...square, he shuns the parties his paper enthusiastically covers and spends evenings at home with his wife Jill and their four children. In his spare time, he has written a recently published novel, The Moonflower Couple, which dwells a lot on clothes while disdaining the fashionable people who wear them. His main ambition is to reach more readers. He takes satisfaction in the fact that twelve large U.S. dailies syndicate material from Women's Wear. Once all his publications are in the black, he hopes to start a general news daily for women, who, he says, "exercise far more...