Word: molyneux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British Captain-Couturier Edward Henry Molyneux, slim, blond women's fashion stylist who won a British Military Cross in World War I, moved his salon from Paris to Limoges...
...birds' nests, in fur; high-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...
...Evening gowns will be an embroiderer's delight, appliqued with sequins, bugles, braid, beads and tinsel. Alix and Molyneux favor very full skirts, elaborately draped-fashion scouts kept harping on the word "Baroque...
...University of Rome and long-time resident in New York's Greenwich Village. Because he designs all the clothes for the Duchess of Kent as well as Mrs. Ernest Simpson's sport outfits, the next most important designer of 1937 is thoroughly British Captain Edward Henry Molyneux. Though Designer Molyneux looks, talks and acts like a dressmaker, he fought straight through the World War, was wounded three times, wears the purple-&-white ribbon of the Military Cross won for gallantry in action. British too and important to any fashion scout is Designer Norman Hartnell, whose sweeping formal evening...
...bought by cinemactress Claire Windsor in 1925. Magnin's will take only lines that it can handle exclusively in its territory. One of its West Coast exclusives is Hattie Carnegie gowns. Magnin keeps a buyer in Paris to watch styles, purchase creations by Lanvin, Vionnet, Patou, Schiaparelli, Chanel, Molyneux...