Word: couturieres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It was bad enough when they started wearing pants. It was worse when they began using Brooks Brothers as a couturier. But nothing--not even being a Radcliffe student--should allow a girl to smoke a pipe.
Couturier Jacques Fath, in Dallas to accept a fashion prize from the Neiman-Marcus store, got all dressed up in native costume (Western-style plaid shirt by Jacques Fath, glass-studded white leather belt by Neiman-Marcus, blue denim britches by Sears, Roebuck). Concluding that the U.S. square dance is...
Sins of Imagination. White-robed, ascetic-looking Father Couturier, 51, his tonsure sharply outlined against his close-cropped head, his brown eyes bright with his own soaring imagination, has become the light and power of a small but significant movement among French artists. From the first, his primary concern has...
Gradually he has won the interest of scoffers and agnostics among the painters, even including a few Communists, e.g., Picasso. Father Couturier welcomes them all, whatever the state of their faith. "We start," he explains, "with the assumption that artists are men and therefore sinners. If their sins are sometimes...
Father Couturier has several projects in various stages of completion. Sometimes they are delayed by ecclesiastics who have strenuously differing views about how a church should be decorated. But the work of Father Couturier is finding growing support among his fellow churchmen and also among such anticlericals as Henri Matisse...