- Title: FRANCE: LEADING DESIGNERS DISPLAY THEIR AUTUMN/WINTER 1998 COLLECTIONS
- Date: 6th July 1997
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JULY 6, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV TORRENTE AUTUMN/WINTER 1998 COLLECTION /MODELS ON CATWALK 0.06 2. SCU MODEL IN GRAY AND BLACK STRIPED JACKET AND BLACK HAT 0.17 3. SLV MODELS IN TORRENTE COLLECTION INCLUDING GREY OUTFIT CUT WITH FUR/ORANGE SUIT AND MODEL IN YELLOW SILK TROUSER SUIT AND SILK EVENING WEAR (14 SHOTS) 1.57 4. SLV CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S GRANDDAUGHTER DOLORES MODELLING WEDDING GOWN 2.13 5. SLV MEDIA 2.19 6. MV ZOOM OUT DOLORES WITH DESIGNER ROSETTE METTE-TORRENTE/MODELS ON CATWALK APPLAUD 2.34 Initials S3 P3 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVA8E913F7M03EQF0HIE8F0911WW
- Story Text: - INTRO: Paris once again played host to the ultra-glamorous haute couture fashion world as leading designers gathered to show their Autumn/Winter 1998 collections.
The Autumn-Winter haute couture season for 1998 opened in Paris on Sunday (July 6) with collections from French fashion houses Nina Ricci and Torrente.
The luxurious Torrente collection, like Nina Ricci's, was aimed at the mature woman unimpressed by the "less-is-more" fashion trends of recent years.
Rosette Mette-Torrente recycled the dandy look for Torrente, matching tweed riding coats with ascots and waistcoats over white poplin shirts.
Like other recent collections, political correctness was tossed to the wind as models strode the catwalk wearingwool coats trimmed in voluminous cuffs and collars of fox fur and mink and ostrich feathers.
Jacket linings matched featherweight crepe print dresses.
Satin - in splashy, shocking pink and chartreuse or icy blue, pearl and silver - was the fabric of choice for evening sheaths and dinner jackets, with sequins flashing from pockets and lapels and paired with matching trousers or long slit skirts.
Nodding to the Oriental trend that flourished on ready-to-wear catwalks in March, Mette-Torrente sent out kimono jackets and soft pyjama trousers in startling pink and yellow silks.
Comic actor, Charlie Chaplin's grandaughter Dolores modeled the bridal gown with spreading skirts under a mink-edged jacket of ivory faille silk.
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