- Title: FRANCE: HIGHLIGHTS OF PARIS SHOW BY DESIGNER VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
- Date: 15th March 1996
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (MARCH 15, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV FASHION DESIGNER VIVIENNE WESTWOOD LETTERS ON WALL/ SHOW OPENS 0.12 2. SV VARIOUS OF MODELS IN KNEE-LENGTH COATS 0.25 3. SV VARIOUS OF MODELS IN SUITS 1.10 4. SV MODEL IN BLACK NET DRESS 1.15 5. SV FULL-LENGTH RED CHENILLE SUIT 1.26 6. SV VARIOUS OF LONG EVENING DRESSES 2.09 7. SV WESTWOOD WALKS ON STAGE AND TAKES BOW 2.33 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 30th March 1996 12:00
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVAES2FQ3WMY3ETVCHPOBNJ8T0HA
- Story Text: INTRO: When Vivienne Westwood put models on the catwalk, followers of fashion used to expect fireworks. So some of them may have been disappointed in Paris on Friday evening when Westwood presented a relatively restrained ready to wear collection.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- British fashion guru Vivienne Westwood presented her Autumn-Winter pret-a-porter collection at the Carousel du Louvre in Paris on Friday (March 15) evening.
Cleverly cut and stitched on the bias, the designs were more sober than in past collections which had, on occasion, verged on the fashion extreme.
There were many British-style waistcoats with nipped waistlines, and rounded shoulder lines.
Plaids and stripes were mixed with solid colours for the suitings.
Westwood either draped velours and taffeta over full skirts for full evening wear or wrapped the fabrics tightly around the models to accentuate curves.
Make-up went to the morbid tendency -- models appearing with white face powder and eyes made up to look like sockets in a skull.
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