Word: schiaparelli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British efforts were made to hush the lawsuit last week over the wedding dress. Supposed to have been entirely "British- made" by Norman Hartnell, Ltd. of London, Lady Alice's dress was in fact cut by M. Albert Cezard. Suing French Cutter Cezard last week, famed Italian-blooded Schiaparelli charged in London's Court of Appeals that he is under contract to her not to cut for a competitor until six months after July 31. One British judge having ruled against Schiaparelli earlier, the Court of Appeals acted not quite fast enough to keep Lady Alice...
...Schiaparelli's erstwhile cutter, the Court heard, introduced a trimming of orange blossoms at the neck, which he cut like a monk's cowl, otherwise left the royal wedding gown glove-fitting and unadorned...
...presence of two famed actors who introduce their specialties as bit parts-George Arliss as the British Prime Minister and Walter Huston as the U. S. President, circa 1985 A.D. The film is an exciting if misleading cinematic horoscope to which futuristic fashion notes were contributed by Schiaparelli. Good shot: gas-masked workmen chatting via television telephones...
Since then she has acquired an adult technique which, with her childish body, her attractively homely face, gives her performances a peculiarly effective quality. For Little Friend her clothes were designed by Schiaparelli. She goes to a private school at Wimbledon, speaks French and German, sews frocks, knits scarves, cooks Swiss rolls, owns a black and white cat, an ivory mouse, a goldfish and a coin with the Lord's prayer engraved on it. Ending a month's visit to the U. S. she last week sailed for England where she will make two pictures a year...
...urged her to take an attic in the rue de la Paix and set up as a designer. She did, in 1927. Two years later she moved down two flights. By 1932 her 400 employes were turning out between 7,000 and 8,000 garments a year and Mme Schiaparelli, with no previous experience and only five years' work, was the most discussed fashion-maker in Paris...