Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Antoine Cierplikowski is the most famed of all Parisian coiffeurs. His estate at Gravigny is spacious with lawns and leafy bowers. On it he has erected his own tomb, surmounted by the colossal marble figure of a man bending over the smaller figure of a woman and gazing at her shaved neck...
...Parisian, even to the accustomed tourist, the mêlée in the Rue de la Paix was not unfamiliar. Similar scenes had been observable just a year ago, and again last February. As every true follower of fashion knows, there are two months in the year when the couturiers open their magnificent salons to the view of a favored few, display their latest triumphs of design, reveal what the well-dressed woman will wear for the next six months...
Many a fortunate Parisian hastened, last week, from the grand openings of the dressmakers to ponder how she should persuade her husband that no matter how chic she might appear in his eyes, in truth she would be in rags unless her wardrobe conformed to these newly-pronounced edicts...
...youth was spent in Marseilles, where the jerseys of sailors gave her the idea for the emancipated woman's golfing costume. Even today she is something of an enigma to gossip-loving Paris. "Coco" Chanel is not beautiful, yet her name is linked with that of Prince Dimitri, Parisian man of the world, famed connoisseur of beautiful women...
...credit of discovering the secret of the down-in-the-back hemline. Primarily a dressmaker, rather than dress seller, she amuses herself by studying the personality of unusual women, then designing costumes to suit them. Her greatest triumph has been with the Actress Spinelly, whose frocks are an annual Parisian wonder...