DRESS OF FILM STARS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)

DRESS OF FILM STARS.

AS SEEN BY A DESIGNER. GRETA GARBO INSPIRING MODEL. How would you like to dress Greta Garbo —or Norma Shearer —or Joan Crawford—or Louise Rainer or Jeannette Macdonald—or Myrna Loy? If you were Adrian you’d know, for as the highest-paid dress-designer in Hollywood that is his job. Adrian 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. "I’m a bachelor—aged 33, if you must know —but sometimes I feel as if I was married 14 times. Sometimes I hate women. At any rate I have to bother more about their clothes than do any - f their husbands.” Garbo—ldeal. Then Adrian —really Gilbert Adrian, he dropped ills Christian name years ago—told of the idiosyncrasies of some of his clients. Garbo he describes as his “most inspiring” model. “When I go to her home, I usually find her in a pullover, slacks, and an eye-shade—her Lair all over the place," he said. “Yet she reacts to clothes with amazing intuition, whether they are simple country frocks or exotic. “Norma Shearer is the very opposite. Her attitude to clothes is mental, not intuitive. She has worn lovely gowns for so long now that she knows what suits her and how to wear it to the best advantage. A Dynamlo Personality. “Joan Crawford is a ‘poster’ type of woman. It’s essential that she should wear definite —not necessarily bright—colours. She’s a dynamic, striking character, and it’s no use trying to get her personality across in frilly-frilly clothes. “Luise Rainer is the most temperamental of all. She imagines the most fantastic things are going to go wrong, and often becomes quite hysterical in a bubbly little way and one has to soothe her gently and tactfully. There is something very beautiful, but intangible about her. The Frilly-frilly Style. "Jeannette Macdonald can only be dressed to full advantage in simple, youthful, frilly-frilly style. "Myrna Lo'y looks her best in smart clothes. To my mind she’s the most beautiful person in Hollywood—off the set—and that’s perhaps why I find her the easiest of my subjects.”