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Author Tabouis preferred the "taste" in Paris, where she was thrilled by a "wonderful party" given by famed Couturier Paul Poiret. "At the door, we were met by half-naked Negroes, draped in beautiful Persian silks and holding torches and yatagans. . . . Pink ibises were strutting about in the light of the moon, and in trees with luminous fruit were monkeys and parrots attached to the branches by little chains. At last, at the end of the garden, we found Paul Poiret, an ivory whip in his hand, enthroned in the "midst of his beautiful harem. . . . There were men with huge...
...genius is the word for Nettie. Her peculiar genius is summed up in her favorite maxim : "It's what you leave off a dress that makes it smart." Luckily for her, this passion for simplicity coincided with the emancipated anti-ruffle trend started by Paris' great Paul Poiret around 1916, the year before Nettie started making clothes for her friends (and their friends) as well as for herself. For four years she did all her work in her brownstone house, but by 1921 so many customers were cluttering up her rooms that she moved to bigger (and swankier...
...Cannes, France, another of numerous attempts at a comeback during the past twelve years was made by fat, splashy Paul Poiret, 64, who bobbed up hopefully as sponsor of a new school of couture. Its title: Academy of Elegance...
...abroad by an aunt; at 16 she made her operatic debut in Germany and married Novelist Johnson. After War and divorce she entered Manhattan society by way of marriage to a wealthy broker named William May Wright. In 1924 she began a series of concerts chiefly distinguished by her Poiret gowns. Meantime she was becoming famed for large, jolly parties to which socialites and celebrities went dressed as circus performers, animals, ballet dancers, Spaniards, infants. When Depression smashed her husband's brokerage firm, Mrs. Wright turned her talents and reputation to moneymaking. Now fortyish and fervent, she directs...
...even more important effect on styles in the U. S. Before 1914 only the wealthiest of U. S. matrons bought their gowns in Paris. To the women of the great middle class, Worth, Redfern, Poiret, Callot Soeurs were simply glamorous names. After 1918 the couturiers began for the first time to dress the whole Western world. Their designs, altered and adapted to suit cheaper grades of materials, began to flow out over all Europe and the U. S. Paris became the hub of world fashion. It still...