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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, › 1959.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
QUIET FASHION IS THE HALLMARK
"PARIS Trend" is a
form of fashion.
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OF KATJA AND RICCI
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Hor BY BLEKK 14 probably unique. Sho designs "unuous! textsjes ... shoes .......... buga and for style clothes, and these are manufac- tail is checked workmanship, Anish and, above tured under contract by various all, to ensure
alien" factories. She has seven students that no detail has crept in inadvertently, in her home (living in) and a The garment must be technical friend who designs wool hats to ly worthy of its inbel, for one of match her sulta, M. Crahay's greatest gifts, thinks One Iactory produces
krit texules, another hand Mrs Gerdes, in his "completeness"
woven textiles and still another, as a designer. He not only en visages style and line, but is the jersey materials which chờ true technician and perfectionist. loves.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
magic. This is a success -scheme which 'began head growing steadily in 1954, FRANCOIS CRAHAY are upon and whose ultimate de- everyone's lips. At the last
they mado Prea velopment is still not follection
headlines. The clothes were fully exploited. But to hailed enthusiastically as the you and me it means test real fashion news for
long time.
Years before this, Mrs Gordes have survived so long, and, in Paris - inspired clothes One person was not surprised
She is MAS had worked in co-operation deed, to have which
this furore. we can really by
M. G. GERDES, Fashion with a number of French cou- the years. afford. F
and furlers among them Nina Today, Paris Trend is B Controller of Selfridges Director of Bon Marche, Liver- Ricci. And it was in this par- complete collection inspired by found Nina Ricet and manufactured salon that sho pool, For many years she has ticular Feld the highest opinion of clothes which wore wearable, by leading London wholesalers.
beautifully A real entento cordialel) and French Interesting from clothes
Ur To make certain that and in 1954 she first made. She found the directors House,
"Paris Trend" co-operative and understanding trus spirit of the original launched
es le of the ordinary woman's needs, medals Is retained in full lluson scheme, destined bring
Nina Rieel inspired and she decided then to expand sence, Nina Ricci's designer, M.
(February over regularly clothes within reach of every a growing success. It is a fest!- Crahay, comes
Trend the Paris woman. This was a far from mony to all concerned, that this to inspect
in the only effort of its kind te models. Each simple task.
of NINA The Paris salon RICCI has always boen quiet and modart In fact, shy ef publiclty. It has always con- cerned soli with the
the oriminating woman d buyer, and has never sought senna tion.
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Nevertheless, without seelding the the limelight, this season
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Left: Handwoven wool easy-fit suit in dark groen with novelty while band repeated on matching wool hat and handbag. Shoes, too, are Katja of Sweden's own design.
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Centro: Lounging suit in shades of burned orango loose weave wool, -agala by Katja. The top has Inoso cowl neckline. Pants are sleek and slim and wom with white calf boots buckled in gold.
Lower left: A more formal dress by Katja in red wool jersey, with low back neckline. It ta an adaptable wraparound giving shape to the midriff. A matching hai, with self flower can be worn with this chic dress.
Paris Trend clothes inspired by Nina Ricel show (top right) a beautiful Spring wait in 100 per cent worsled wool cord. The jacket has intricate channel seaming and a peial hemline. Price about 17 god.
Below: A new, near-straight jacketed suit in lambswool herringbone. This lovely suit with the front, low-lying neckline and sleeven comes in a variety of gentle colours with whits and costs only 121⁄2
Thero are matching pull-on hata in wool fabric or jersey, trimmed with contrast Jersey bands or flowers. There are won- derfully large tweedy "hand- “Ilis talent is no flash in the bags" and travel carryalls slang on wooden handles, and abso- pan", enys Mra Gerdes, “but a
creative gitt which has jutely enormous sweaters which true constantly matured". This fore- form part of interchangeable out-
Nine Ats of stacks, jorseys, skirts and} sight led her to sponsor Ricci clothes long before the jackels. Current Prosa ovation.
season
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Even her private Ufe has been
Colours spill over, They ore Perhaps timing, is one of the vibrant, alive, but never glaring. greatest factors in this mystery One sweater I adored combined of fashion. Dior had designing helge with white in one broad genius, but he felt the mood of siripe, beige with brown tr the feminine world-especially another, and beige with black in when ho Launchod the New a third. Look after years of austerity clothes.
These clothes which will be on sale in the Autumn are casual, This
the world was comfortable,, and atwolutely indi- tired of icks, chemlice and vidual, now and different. They Empire lines. The mood was will not date. They are muted weary and uncertain. And into to every woman. They have been this Jutes-Francois Crahay designed by beautiful woman Jaunched-or gave back to us who loves beauty, but refuses to the first curves we have had for be led down by any form of
long time. His rounded lines, convention. cinched waista, cape collars and belled skiria were all seized upon. So were "gimmicks", streamlined to at the pattern. husbond has temporarily such as the long, belted bush Her jacket similar to the one worn abandoned aims to help ber and to take care of the housekeeplog by the Australians.
on a grand scale. Ho will buy a But the real force of his couple of pigs, a enit, get a designs may not be seen until woman to cut them up, and then next stason, and many will put them in the deep trenze, so not be fully accepted by the that food is always available. public until some months after
Katja is modern, streamlined that. In his collection there and completely uncluttered. In way a strong hint of things to the same way, her beautiful wool come the return
4 more suits, dresses, hats, and handbags tailored
with 3 are beautifully unique and post- jonger jacket, long, slim revers tively scaled to suit our coniem--- and even a masculine fastening porary way of living. of three butions with one jeft undone. After ao many sea- Fons of dressmaker suits we nly be about to return to the clauste tailored sult beloved by English women, but this time with a new silhouette.
silhouette,
Meanwhile in tho Paris Trend current collection, Spring mults are delightfully wearable. "Worsted cord, says Selfridges Pult buyer, "has been a big tac- CCRS. So huyo worsleg, boucles and the very light tweeds. One very lovely fabric used for the ruft ilustratəl is a fine wool. and labswool with a herringbone design, Coats are in curly worried boucle. M. Crahay has a particular weak- nees for wonted Glen checks, dogtooths and puppy tooths.
The Paris Trend collection suna from about 81⁄41⁄2 gna, for a dress, slowly climbing upwards to about $35 for a really fabu- kus Ovening gown. A suit or coat, completely faithful to its Paris inspiration and approved by its designer, costs no more than any other garment of average price.
This fashion story has not reached its climax. To all con- cerned in its success, the Inten- tion is to carry on quietly with steady.controlled expansion as in the past. Meanwhile as the fashion world walts and watches to see what may hap- pen next, tribute has to be paid. to Mme. Nina Ricct, M. Robert ..to the talent of its tend designer Jules Francols- Crahay, and to a store and its Fashion Controller, Mrs Gestles, who together have succeeded in bringing the art of good dress- ing a stop nearer to everyons.
An Individual-
Designer
A completo individualist, who does not believe in adaptations coples is KATJA: OF SWEDEN, Gho has just shown her coloction in London for the first too.
Katja-in private life Mrs Geiger, and wife of the pro- ducer of the famous Alm, “Öpen City" has been brought up in the world of art. From her car Hest childhood, the icarmod to understand art and, shovo all, form and shape from her father, who was a famous ceramic de- signer. At 10, she went to Now York to study and through the years she has learned to apply to bextiles and, tehion the same uncluttered, lovely lines which tro aes in Boandinavian liver- ware, pottery and furniture,
Ketja, beautiful blonde, LonLiveR extreme clothes, "A woman should not be remeinbor wd for her sikrin", sho How "but the garment should express her personality." Dressed in a loone- ly woven blorgle wool mát, Katin www completely patched up" mervover, by her own design
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21- February 19): An interest- ing stranger will stimulate you to be more than usual- ly eloquent and witty.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 21): A pleasurable outing will bring you in contact somo delightful people.
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CANCER (June 22-July 21):
There is an opportunity for you to enjoy the limelight for a tleed well done.
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enjoying its benefits for a long time to come.
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(November 22-December 21): Your
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