Callot
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Hortense Acton, with La Pietra as her lavish stage set, wore her Callot Soeurs gowns to entertain; her parties drew everyone from Gertrude Stein and Sergei Diaghilev to Winston Churchill.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015
“Without the example of the Callot Soeurs,” Vionnet said, “I would have continued to make Fords. It is because of them that I have been able to make Rolls-Royces.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015
A Callot gown—recalling a sari, a qipao, or a djellabah—can read like a map of French colonial projects supplemented with an inset of Japan.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015
Then there were the 12-year-old twins�Terry, a wise boy who longed wistfully for school or a tutor, and beautiful Blanca, a jealous little snob who recognized cruelly last year's Callot model, this year's Chanel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later the king tried to allure Callot by gifts, honors and pensions, but in vain.
From Artists Past and Present Random Studies by Cary, Elisabeth Luther
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