Molyneux Looks Back

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31586, 25 January 1968, Page 2

Molyneux Looks Back

(N.IP. A.-Reuter—Copyright) | PARIS, Jan. 24. Captain Edward Molyneux brings back the era of the 1938 s —except for hemlines —in his spring fashion collections, which were shown in Paris on Monday. The hemlines were just above the knee. Molyneux is well qualified to interpret the 1930 styles. He was one of the most influential fashion designers in Paris at that' time. On Monday he brought back ail the looks that made him famous the pleated and bias-cut skirts, the dress

and bolero ensembles, the shirt-waist dresses and headhugging hats and hair-styles. His principal theme was navy blue and white. He showed ensembles and coat dresses with pleated white or gandie collars and fluted cuffs, and two-toned navy blue and white spectator shoes with high, chunky, treetrunk heels of the pre-war area. Molyneux featured two coat silhouettes one a slim tube fastened with a single large button— and the other

a wrap-around kimono coat. The coat dress was featured constantly, often in wrap-around style. Other dresses had removable overskirts with pleated aprons which stripped from the belted waistline. Evening clothes featured big floral prints on sheer fabric. Flowers which were featured throughout Molyneux’s collection, have pre-occupied -the 75-year-old designer all his life. They trimmed every type of dress in the new colI lection.