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...last week famous couturiers displayed their 1944 creations. .Most of the familiar names were back: Bruyere, Alix, Molyneux, Worth, Lanvin, Schiaparelli, Lelong, Paquin. The trend was pronounced: skirts full and short, waists small, shoulders wide, sleeves mutton-legged. Designers used material lavishly, too lavishly for U.S. and British women limited by regulations and rationing...
Frou-Frou and Satire. The old Parisian skill was evident. In some of the old Parisian froufrou, the subtle political and social comment also was evident. Schiaparelli offered a model with a bustle in front. Lelong put jeeps on charm bracelets. Agile, aging (70) Madame Jeanne Lanvin (who served iced drinks to shivering patronesses} showed a slinky, black, backless, low-front evening dress called "Liberty." She also offered a simple frock of palest pink named "Free France...
Last Nazi bigwig's wife to do her fall shopping in Paris was probably Emmy Göring. She paid a flying visit to her favorite couturiere, Jeanne Lanvin in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, just a fortnight before the Americans came to town...
...from the Juilliard Foundation, then went to Paris, to go hungry. "I hope," he declared, "I shall never again have to earn an honest penny." He remained in Paris until last year, managed to live in a canary-yellow-walled apartment, had his clothes made by Couturière Lanvin, ate (and cooked) exquisite little dinners, went to bed for days at a time when he felt bored. He still calls Paris his home...
...Francophile Edna Woolman Chase, Harper's Bazaar's blue-haired, dynamic Carmel Snow, declared they were enthusiastic about what the U. S. woman will wear this fall. But the fall styles were not made in Manhattan. Their keynote was struck in Paris last May-by Schiaparelli, by Lanvin, by Chanel, Molyneux, LeLong, etc.-in their regular midseason openings, sparsely attended but well covered by cable and sketch. Since then Paris has fallen. The U. S. dress business will soon need more guidance. Otherwise it will not know what to make...