Dear teacher,
Mr. Beene was American fashion's most paradoxical designer: a technician who stood shoulder to shoulder with the great French couturiers; a modernist who consistently defied those technical conventions; a Southern gentleman who found converts among New York's high priestesses of art and society yet refused to kowtow to the industry's bible, Women's Wear Daily, with which he had a long feud.
Q : I think the meaning of the bold part is that he is popular with New York's high priestesses of art and society, isn't it?
All the best,
found converts?
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Re: found converts?
Yes, more or less. A convert is someone who has changed his/her adherence to some movement, usually religion. A convert to Christianity is someone who has become a Christian. NY's "high priestesses" of art and society were converted to Mr Beene's ideas.pdh0224 wrote:Mr. Beene was American fashion's most paradoxical designer: a technician who stood shoulder to shoulder with the great French couturiers; a modernist who consistently defied those technical conventions; a Southern gentleman who found converts among New York's high priestesses of art and society yet refused to kowtow to the industry's bible, Women's Wear Daily, with which he had a long feud.
Q : I think the meaning of the bold part is that he is popular with New York's high priestesses of art and society, isn't it?
--Josef