Word: schiaparelli
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...mentally and emotionally dependent on a foreign class to which they wish to belong, i.e., the great American and French bureaucracy." His wife and fellow artist, Frida Kahlo, said he, has worn nothing but Mexican clothes for 22 years, and when she went to Paris in 1939, Madame Elsa Schiaparelli was so impressed that she designed a "robe Madame Rivera...
...dressmakers tried hard to turn out eye-catching eccentricities. Dior showed knee-length gaiters (see cut). A Schiaparelli handout gushed: "What could be more heartening to a world in crisis than a face veil tumbled over with roses?" Another Schiaparelli heartener: fire-engine red stockings shouting out from under petticoats that hung six inches below dress hems. Jacques Fath had his own private eccentricity; he slit his narrow skirts up the rear, to a point well above the back of the knees. From the bow, one of his bridal dresses looked as sleek as a racing sloop. Viewed from...
...French took too much notice. Top designers-Paquin, Schiaparelli, Maggy Rouff, et al.-had all promised to attend the show. But as the beauteous California models paraded in their bathing suits and dresses before buyers and fashion writers, there was not a big-name designer among the oglers. They had decided that California's bold publicity stunt threatened too much competition. But Georges Berheim, manager of Paris' huge Galeries Lafayette department store, cried: "Sensational! I would like to buy the whole collection...
...California price tags, and changed their minds. Ranging from $15 to $79.95 retail, the California clothes could hardly compete with Paris' high-priced originals. As one observer said happily: "This is not competition. It's merely trade." Members of the couturiers' syndicate promptly changed their attitude; Schiaparelli and Jacques Fath threw cocktail parties. A round of dining and lunching followed, highlighted by a Government-sponsored party at the exclusive Club de Lundi. Buyers from Cairo, Lebanon, Switzerland and Sweden, who had been trying to get just such clothes as California showed, bustled about trying to place orders...
Rosenstein and Schiaparelli...