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The Best Dressed List-The women who were fashion
2008-05-01 » Couture houses survived by cut-backs and staff reductions, by getting credit from textile manufactures and using capital accrued during the rich years of the Twenties, and because of the faithful patronage of the 'Best Dressed List'. This list was, to borrow a phrase of Ernestine Carter's, a 'tongue-in-the -chic' poll, [...]
The eye of the beholder-Fashion and the media
2008-04-28 » Schiaparelli and Poiret were two of the great entertainers of fashion, and, along with Patou and Dior, laid the foundations of our modern fashion scene-the razzmatazz style of presentation, the catwalk capers, the media hype. The media has had a profound influence on the way that fashions are marketed, and [...]
In a couture house
2008-04-28 » Poiret had shown how it should be done, with his beige coloured Torpedo Renault and matching chauffeur. Patou owned Hispano-Suiza sports autos, and so did Molyneux, but if they raced each other down the Rue de Rivoli it isn't recorded. The American mannequin Lillian Farley, who modelled as Dinarzade, remembers [...]
Patou and the 'New Style'
2008-04-19 » in 1911, a tailor, so he had a solid grounding for couture. Indeed, such was the quality of his workmanship that his clothes, like those of Chanel, wore well even after being well worn. His style was of rigorous simplicity and neatness, and a clean-lined, almost geometric elegance. It [...]
Tango fever
2008-04-03 » Fashion is perpetually sensitive to the kaleidoscopic patterns registered by the shifts, changes and caprices of everyday life, exploiting the latest fads to its own purpose.In the decade before World War I, America was dancing the Boston Two-Step, the Turkey Trot, the Bunny Hug and exciting new dance called the [...]
The passion for fashion
2008-03-28 » , from the excesses of Marie Antoinette two centuries ago, to the lady who recently admitted to owning over two two hundred pairs of shoes with matching handbags, and wardrobes crammed with suits and dresses, many of which had never been worn, nor were likely to be since she bought, [...]
About fashion
2008-03-24 » The clothes that we wear, our shoes, our hats and other accessories, indicate our class and nationality, and can date us to within a decade or sometimes to within a year or even a brief season, such is the rapid rate of change in dress.Most people follow the styles of [...]
Fashion goes straight
2008-03-24 » The 1920s heralded the age of functional fashion, as opposed to the rather Grande Dame styles of the previous decades, and the extravagant, theatrical designs of that great individualist Poiret.His decline and fall occured because he was unable to adapt to the post-war mood and its demand for simplicity.Women wanted [...]
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