Word: couturiere
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The hat is back! With this fall's revival of the neatly proportioned, high-glamour image of the '40s, the little hats of yesteryear are once again topping off designer collections in Paris and the U.S. Scorned for over a decade as too matronly or dressy, hats are...
Along with Cocteau, the avant-garde French writer and film director whose aphorism he quotes frequently these days, Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent may be fou like a fox. After years of beguiling women into austerely tailored pantsuits, now, in this cool age of less is more and casual...
When the sumptuous 110-model spectacle was over, buyers and clients rushed to the dressing room, where the shy, soft-spoken couturier was waiting with his mother Lucienne. "Formidable!" his admirers gasped. "It will change the future of fashion," declared Ohrbach's fashion consultant, Sydney Gittler, adding portentously, "What...
Outrageous Designs. Saint Laurent, whose firm invested about $500,000 in last week's show, was optimistic that his collection would catch on. Since the Algerian-born French designer took over the couture house of his mentor Dior in 1957 at the age of 21, he has produced a...
Chris is not dressed by British Designer Ted Tinling, but she is one of the few top players he has not worked with. Tinling, 66, who was once a couturier in Paris, was present at the creation: it was he who designed Gussy's fancy pants. Now when he...