Courreges keeps to mini-skirts

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 5

Courreges keeps to mini-skirts

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PARIS. The designer, Andre Courreges, has come to the aid of girls who still want to show their legs. While the rest of Paris is hiding legs with the slinky midis of the 19305, the designer who brought out the mini-skirt in the early 1960 s refuses to give it up.

Rumour flew through clothing trade circles last week that Courreges would forget his architectural, —stiff short clothes and show long, V-neck dresses and cloche hats like everybody else.

But Courreges ignored the 1930 s craze in his spring high-fashion collection last night. For his youthful market, he presented his classic white dresses brazenly above the knee, his strict white trousers, and coloured vinyl jackets. “No concessions to a deca d e n t environment,” Courreges said after the show. A white skirt that unbuttoned from a blue top to reveal a shorts suit was new for Courreges. A red dress unzipped on the diagonal to show a bathing suit. The crowd applauded a short, white dress edged with lime-green and topped by a lime and white printed jacket. The lime-green-dress zippers unzipped te reveal underneath a swimsuit matching the jacket. EVENING WEAR Courreges went wild for evening. A white dress had an aluminium bosom and aluminium bands around the full organdy pleats. A gold strapless top went with the long white skirt and gold armbands. Then there were little bows held by question-mark shaped plastic hung over the ear. The Courreges show as usual was bouncy and happy. It was no surprise when one of the cutest mannequins by mistake was his It hr e e-year-old daughter, Foufou, who I wandered out on the stage wearing a shirt labeled “Courreges.”