Word: poiret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Poiret, famed Parisian couturier, declared last week that he will transfer his business domicile from Paris to Manhattan, next October. He will do business in a Park Avenue apartment, as unshop-like as possible. The sensation caused by this announcement was inferior only to that stirred some months ago, when M. Poiret appeared for the first time since boyhood with his face denuded of the dark, fascinating beard which every woman knew...
WITH THE ADVENT to these SHORES of none other than THE ROTUND and illustrious PAUL POIRET PERHAPS better known to THOSE OF the fairer SEX but nevertheless WELL ENOUGH known to THE LESS deadly of the SPECIES, plus the APPEARANCE in a supposedly RATIONAL sheet in the SOMEWHAT LESS rational MIDDLE WEST of a STATEMENT to the effect that HARVARD MEN are the worst DRESSED MEN on any college CAMPUS the floor for DEBATE and a heated. DISCUSSION of the general QUESTION of men's APPAREL is thrown wide OPEN...
...GOOD M. POIRET IS touring the LAND commenting ON American dress both MALE and female AND although he is QUALIFIED to judge OF THESE things and PASS cutting remarks AND WE are not YET we too are going to INDULGE in a little HARMLESS FIREWORKS...
French aristocracy has, in the main, a healthy contempt for le T. S. F.;* but, recently, when famed coutourier Paul Poiret spoke over ether waves at Paris, he was widely listened to - for M. Poiret had a grievance. He complained - as does many a great artist who executes the commissions of a U. S. clientele - that his work is only bought, not appreciated. A sturdy U. S. comment would be: "He should worry, so long as it's bought!" But M. Poiret's deep, booming voice had a note savoring of genuine anguish last week, as it reverberated...
...idea of what U. S. newsgatherers will say about M. Poiret could be gleaned from a space filler done last week by one Henry Beckett of the New York Evening Post, who hashed up half-truths thus: "In Paris M. Poiret inhabits a studio with leopard skins on the floors, frescoes on the walls and stone figures of nude women on pedestals. He gained note as a builder of styles for fat women, and he learned about women-fat women -from umbrellas. He used to be an apprentice to an umbrella manufacturer, and he studied the lines and curves...