CLOSING DOWN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 14

CLOSING DOWN

FAMOUS LONDON SALON

SCHIAPARELLI'S COMPLAINT

The announcement that Mme. Schiaparelli is to close her London salon is rousing discussion, states the "Manchester Guardian." She complains that the English copyright laws are too elastic to safeguard the luxury dressmaker and that her models are being too freely copied. Schiaparelli is famous for having made clothes amusing—she embroiders a heart on your sleeve, she prints lobsters and bottles of champagne on your picnic dress, and she finds new colours that are scandalous in their vividness. Perhaps the long faces that are being worn in London this season are a bad foil for her gaiety, or possibly she find* that she cannot spare time for a London as well as a Paris and a New York house. "SNOB APPEAL" OF PARIS. There has been a lively coming and going between Paris and London of famous dressmakers ever since the middle of the last century, when Worth, an Englishman with a Paris training, opened a London salon in the grand French manner, and lately the number of noted French dressmakers in England has increased enormously. This increase is no doubt partly owing to the present high duty on French clothes, but may also be due to the fact that the English have at last begun to realise that there are plenty of English designers without a Paris reputation who are producing fine clothes, and French dressmakers have been forced to come to London in a body because Englishwomen are successfully resisting the snob appeal of Paris.

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