Katie Couric receives the Alice Award from the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum on Tuesday in Washington. – Getty Images
Katie Couric said on Tuesday she’s “not particularly proud” that the first coverage she received as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” referred to her wearing white after Labor Day, and whether it was a fashion faux pas or not.
“For the record,” she clarified, “it was winter white, and it was Armani.”
Couric was in town to receive the Sewall-Belmont House’s “Alice Award,” given annually to a woman who has “broken down barriers and set new precedents for women’s achievements.”
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Couric told the crowd about her challenges on the way to the top, from sexist comments about her breasts at CNN, to Sam Donaldson jumping up on her desk on her first day on the job at ABC and “singing ‘K-K-Katie’ at the top of his lungs.”
She gave shoutouts to her parents, John and Elinor Couric, who raised her in Arlington, several of her friends from Yorktown High School, and Channel 4’s Barbara Harrison, the event’s emcee and a longtime colleague.
“I’d never heard of Bulgari before I met Barbara,” said Couric.
And Harrison had fashion on the mind as well. If Couric was marching among the suffragettes a hundred years ago, Harrison said, “she’d be the one showing off one of those new flirty, ankle-length skirts.”
