Reveal the knees and enjoy the party’
NZPA-Reuter Paris Top Paris designers have a morale-boosting message for women — show your knees, and enjoy the party. Their fashions, on show now in the spring and summer couture collections, are young, happy and colourful. The mood is chic and dressy even for sports clothes and knees are set for a big comeback. Pierre Cardin shows many miniskirts while most other designers scale hems around the knees.
Flower power is right in fashion with couturiers using petal and tulipshaped skirts in a medley of floral prints and gar-den-bright colours. Hubert de Givenchy evokes a flower’s stem in slim supple dresses evolved from the slender chemise he showed last season. Other silhouettes have full skirts wrapped like calla lilies, belled like tulips or tiered like lilies of the valley.
Shoulders stay wide buf the grossly exaggerated padding of the past three seasons is finished. Waistlines are generally fitted and marked by belts. However, Marc Bohan of Christian Dior and Guy Laroche play with g “trompe I’oeil’* effects *■' suggesting a dropped waist with slanted pock- ■ ets efr bandings across the hipline. Jackets team with pencil-slim skirts that have high, sexy-lbok-ing slits, and sunray pleated styles. Nina Ricci starts off the season with a gala presentation in a vast public pavilion. Gerard Pipart, the Ricci designer, announced all sorts of fantasies with tulip themes for late day'wear. Sugar-coated romance also put in an appeamace in other collections with elaborate double skirts, ? layers and flounces, floated butterfly wing panels and hemlines frothed with ostrich feathers.
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Press, 8 February 1980, Page 8
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