Small designer wins award
NZPA-Reuter Paris The eccentric designs of the sihall Paris fashion house, Jean Patou, have taken top honours at the end of a week-long show of high-fashion collections.
A Patou designer, Christian Lacroix, was awarded the “golden thimble," the coveted Oscar of the fashion world, for the “best, most creative and most elegant collection.”
The award, first created in 1977; is given twice a year at the end of the spring-summer and autumn-winter shows, the two highlights of the Paris fashion calendar.
Patou, which has never won the thimble, presented a quirky collection, rich in eccentricity with giant floppy hats and cab-bage-shaped dresses in Chantilly lace.
The collection won rapturous applause during the show, though some critics accused the house of creating clothes that were unwearable even by the accommodating standards of high-fashion. Emphasising the artistic and imaginative dimension of haute-couture, Patou showed a witty and varied collection of garments carrying exotic names such as as Mogambo, Habanera, Tatoo, and Caprice. Models with light, flowing gowns took the catwalk with others wearing open-backed tunics over ruffled bermuda shorts in pink-and-black spotted chiffon.
The house’s clothes also won praise for their exuberant use of colours that ranged from soft shading to harsh contrast
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Press, 1 February 1986, Page 10
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