GRETA GARBO THE MODEL MODEL, SAYS ADRIAN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 11

GRETA GARBO THE MODEL MODEL, SAYS ADRIAN

How would you like to dress Greta .GaTbo — or. Norma' Shearer — or Joan Crawford — or. Louise Eainer — or Jeaneette Macdonald — or Myrna Loy? If you were Adrian you'd know, for as the highest-p'aid dress-designer in . Hollywood that is bis job. Adrianf arrived in London last' , month.: When seen in' the . palatial , royal suite at. Claridge 's he , said that he doesn't find his enviable ,work .all honey. , . : . "Fm a bachelor— aged 83, if you xr.ust know — but somotimcs I feel as if'.X was married 14 *times. ,Some- ' Hines*! hato women. At any rate I have to bother niore about iheir 'clothes. x than, * do any; of thjeir hus.bands." Then ' Adrian — really Gilbert Adrian, he.'di^ipped his • Christian ; name -yoars ;ago— told of the idiosyncr'aoies of . some- of his clients. 1 • ■ . Garbp.-he describes»as his "mrst inspiring model. ''When I* go' to ter home, I'usually find her in. a pullovor," slacks/.and an eyq-shade— her hair all . oyer ;the place,-" he*said; . >''Yet sho reaets to : clothes • with amaziug .intuition,',whether they. are simple country fiocks, or- exotic. . • ; • : : -• "Norma Shearer., is; the very. pppo site. , Her attitude • to , clothes , is l r.i«?ntaj, not .intuitive. She has wom lovely •gowns, for so.long now that sho. knoivs

What suits her and how to wear it to •the" best? advantage. • . ! i " J oan • Crawford is a ' poster' ' type - of woman. . It's ■ essential • that" she should wear definite — not neeoss.t/rily bright— colours. . She's . a V/Uimic, striking character, and it's no nse trying to get her perso^ality 'aerdsss in frilly-frilly clothes. ''Eouise Eainer is the most temperamental of all.' -She " imagiaes !the most fantastic. things are going to go wrong, and often becomes- quito hystorical in a bubbly. little way-and one has to soothe her gently nnd. tactfully. There is somothing very beau,tLfuI; but: intangible about, her. .. . ' The Frilly-frilly Styloi "Jeanette Macdonald can only bo dressed' to full . advantage in simple, youthful, frilly-frilly.- style. ' ' Myrna Loy. ... looks . her . * best in smart clothes. . To my mind . she 's the most beautiful. person. in Holly-j-,wood— K>ff- the set — and that's, perhaps • wliy I find her the easiest of my-sub-joctfr.". ,