PARIS: DESIGNER PIERRE BALMAIN UNVEILS HIS NEW LINE ON FALL AND WINTER FASHIONS

Record ID: 231141

  • Title: PARIS: DESIGNER PIERRE BALMAIN UNVEILS HIS NEW LINE ON FALL AND WINTER FASHIONS
  • Date: 20th August 1968
  • Summary: 1. SV MODEL COCKTAIL DRESS IN BLACK BROCADE WITH GOLD BRAID AND BLACK VELVET (3 SHOTS) 0.19 2. SV GIRL VELVET COCKTAIL DRESS WITH THREE-QUARTER SLEEVES, BLACK VELVET EMBROIDERED WITH COPPER IN BLACK & WHITE AT CHEST LEVEL (2 SHOTS) 0.41 3. SV MV MODEL WEARS COCKTAIL DRESS, TOP OF DRESS IN BLACK VELVET AND SKIRT IN SPANGLED LACE IN GREY STEEL TRIMMED WITH WHITE SATIN (2 SHOTS) 1.07 4. SV MEN FISHING BY LAKE PAN TO THREE MODELS 1.16 5. CU FIRST MODEL ON LEFT WEARING STRAIGHT BLACK WOOLLEN DRESS EMBROIDERED PANEL RED AND GOLD AND BLACK WOOL AT CHEST LEVEL 1.29 6. CU CENTRE WEARING EVENING DRESS IN WHITE SILK TOP EMBROIDERED WITH COLD, LARGE SKIRT IN STRIPE LAME 1.42 7. CU THIRD MODEL ON RIGHT IN EVENING DRESS ENCRUSTED WITH RED VELVET OVALS 2.00 8. CU BV..MODEL WALKS TO LV.. 2.08 Initials JH/V/JH/ES EDITORS: THIS FILM IS EMBARGOED, NOT TO BE RELEASED BEFORE 24TH AUGUST. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th September 1968 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA5AX5PMYYUZAIXRTT1C12I7HZX
  • Story Text: PIERRE BALMAIN, ONE OF EUROPE'S LEADING FASHION DESIGNERS, HAS UNVEILED HIS NEW FALL AND WINTER COLLECTION. BALMAIN DRESSES QUEEN SIRIKIT OF THAILAND, THE COMTESSE DE PARIS, AND A HOST OF OTHER ROYAL LADIES.

    HIS NEW COLLECTION IS BASED ON A PRINCESS SILHOUETTE WITH FITTED BODICE AND GENTLY FLARED SKIRTS WHICH ARE FLAT IN THE FRONT AND THE BACK AND WIDEN AT THE SIDES. THE HEMS ARE JUST ABOVE THE KNEES AND ARE WORN WITH TRANSLUCENT SHEER DARK STOCKING. WAISTLINES WANDER FROM AN INCH OR TWO (TOW TO FIVE CM) ABOVE THE NATURAL LINE TO SLIGHTLY BELOW IT.

    BAILMAN'S COLOURS ARE PREDOMINANTLY SOBER. BLACK, OXFORD GREY, LIGHTER GREYS AND TAUPE ARE IN THE LEAD, FOLLOWED BY PALE OFF-WHITES AND HONEY BEIGE. TWO-TONED EFFECTS APPEAR IN FURS, AS BLACK AND WHITE MINK COLLARS AND CUFFS, OR TRIPLE TONES AS A MINK COAT IN CHEVRON STRIPES OF BLACK, WHIT AND BROWN.

    THE WOOLS COMPRISE TWEEDS AND HEAVY WOOL JERSEYS AND CREPES. SILKS ARE ALSO USED.
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