WOMEN'S FASHIONS

Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2270, 19 February 1929, Page 8

WOMEN'S FASHIONS

ARTIST, NOT PREACHERS,

. In" dn amusing interview with the Press correspondent, Epstein, the giant sculptor, questioned about women's fashions, advised the interviewer to consult a famous artist. "I am not interested in this," he said "I cannot be supposed to have an opinion on everything under the sun!" On the question of "bobbed" hair, however, he said: "Look at any of my drawings of a woman.' Not one of them shows short hair!" "But your busts!" interjected the interviewer, "aren't many of them portraits of "bobbed" heads?" He smiled. "Well, well! Busts! that's different. And, long or short, it doesn't really matter, as long as there is beauty there!" Asked why he seemed to have a

predilection in his choice of models for Indian and Negro women, and how. the Eastern type of womanhood, generally speaking, with the Western type in its most salient physical characteristics, Mr Epstein shrugged his shoulders: "These are ethnological questions," he said "I am a sculptor and no ethnologist!" Questioned why there was such a strange discrepancy between his sculpture and his drawings—the sculpture bearing throughout the mark of a high spiritual intensity, while the drawings, with few exceptions, tend rather to tepid sensuality —Mr Epstein said: "I have no tendency. I do not preach anything."