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...believe in sending just anything to my aviators!" cried Coco last week, explaining that she sends them only the finest English pullovers, stockings and gloves, each .neatly stamped in the corner "Chanel." Exactly opposite in type to Coco is that dignified great lady of the haute couture, Mme Jeanne Lanvin, first woman of her calling ever made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, famed creator in rich fabrics of the simple robes de style. Mme Lanvin says briefly, "Women should stick to what they do best." She was open for business last week, turning out mostly day dresses for women...
Princesses and Cooks. In Biarritz, where the fashion houses Lanvin and Patou have shops, arrived last week Mme Louis Cartier to open a shop next door-her personal piece of family war work. Installed in the Casino de Bellevue is the leading eye, ear, nose & throat hospital of France, and the knitting and bandage-rolling centre of Biarritz is the famed Hotel du Palais, once a palace of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Wise old Madame la Marüchale Pütain, who is in charge of the knitting, carefully let it be known that women...
...buttoned colored kid boots; tiny electric lights on handbags and ornaments. Schiaparelli's opposites, Vionnet and Alix, who pay heed to anatomy and do their designing on models, showed finely draped and molded dresses. The derivative-exotic appeared in the collections of Molyneux, who used vaguely Oriental touches, Lanvin, who offered Persian toques and flares, and Paquin, whose long, slim, golden gowns suggested the Chinese...
...Sensation of the week was a group of transparent georgette evening dresses by Lanvin, embroidered with designs in wool. Demurely the models hoisted their skirts to show full-length opera tights, dyed to match the dress...
...extreme, fantastic and sumptuous to be worn by one woman in a million, show them mostly on featureless-faced mannequins rough-hewn of pinkish beige plaster, some as disproportioned as surrealism. Barely practical are the clothes shown by Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women, Lanvin has draped two gowns of medieval inspiration and some handsome furs on a gigantic horse and an heraldic lion. Rebel Schiaparelli, outdoing even this, has flung a plaster female stark naked.* bottom down on a beach rug of artificial flowers, tossed the costume on a beach chair. Since such capers...