First recorded in 1860–65
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After graduation, she moved to London, where she worked as a window dresser.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2022
After university and military service, Armani worked as a window dresser at the upmarket La Rinascente department store in Milan in 1957 before becoming a menswear designer and eventually launching his label in 1975.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2020
“I can channel the artistry as the window dresser Molina and exude the seductive allure of his muse and tormentor the Spider Woman and honor the diva saviors of my youth: Chita, Conchita and Vanessa!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2020
There was a time in the early 1980s, she once recalled, when she found herself sprinting across the street to a neighboring specialty store and accosting a young window dresser.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
Judging from the enthusiasm with which the store manager and the window dresser received the suggestion, it would appear that the idea could be used almost anywhere.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Peter was an electrician and Helmut a window-dresser, so they combined their skills to canny effect.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2018
In 1988, he signed a licensing deal with Giorgio Armani, another self-made tycoon, who had started out as a window-dresser at a department store in Milan.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2018
But she found professional dance too cutthroat and became a window-dresser for stores like ABC Home & Carpet.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2013
By presenting common things, familiar to commercial art, in a different context, Lichtenstein, a onetime window-dresser, argues that he is creating something new.
From Time Magazine Archive
I could see that he was not what in the old days I’d have called a window-dresser.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
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