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Engaged. Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, fortyish, famed Parisian couturiere; and one Paul Iribe. painter, decorator, Chanel business partner...
...Francaise," and Raymond Radeguet sitting every evening at the Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived with his mother in haughty, respectable rooms looking out on the Arc de Triomphe de 1'Etoile, Matisse, Madame Chanel, Modigliani, and James Joyce, and Jose Maria Sert, who is now decoration part of Radio City. There are almost too many of them; one gains no very precise picture of any one, or of the whole; one is befuddled...
...spring and autumn opening a certain number of freak gowns, shown only for their publicity value. Thus the Swiss designer Heim, opening his new shop on the Champs Elysees, showed sports dresses of natural burlap with clothesline girdles; Jane Regny had a combination evening gown and bathing suit; Gabrielle Chanel had gloves of 18-carat spun gold; Maggy Rouff showed evening gowns with a zipper down the front from neck to hem "for moonlight bathing." Ruffling through their notebooks, buyers reported the following definite trends for 1933 summer fashions: ¶ Waists will be lower, lines will be definitely straighter...
...sudden. The blessed event which now delights silk men really began last February when the U. S. style buyers found nothing to excite them at the Paris salons and bitterly said so, threatening never to come back. Oh, please come back next summer! begged Vionnet, Lanvin, Patou, Schiaparelli, Chanel, et al., and promised faithfully to have something that would surely start a U. S. fad, a wave of buying under the irresistible pressure of Fashion...
...Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided less by a sense of decency than a sense of decoration. Ina Claire, Joan Blondell and Madge Evans are even more alluring than the ladies who occupied their roles in the theatre. Their clothes were designed for them by Mile Gabrielle Chanel, who was summoned to Hollywood in person for the purpose...