premierludwig
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I found this little bit of info in an article called "Life Begins at 30" in a 1966 issue of London Life magazine and thought some of you might find it interesting/useful.
love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
Jean Muir: Aged 32, Jean Muir is tiny, dynamic, with enormous eyes and smile. In the midst of the Courreges/Ungaro trend which has swept and almost monopolised the country, she has continually and successfully kept a "prettiness" trend going. Whenever journalists needed an illustration for prettier, wearable, simply feminine clothes to back their forcasts for "The My Fair Lady Look" or "The Viva Maria Look" they used her designs.
She started the firm Jane and Jane four years ago, having worked in Liberty's, where she learned her love of extravagant fabric, and in Jaegar's, where she learned a basic simplicity of design. She aims to design for the woman between 20 and 40, and says that she prefers the words gentle and even ladylike to pretty, which may have been used too much. She has a considerable following in America, and - most recnetly - in Australia.
"Chic" is a word she often uses. "I like to feel that my clothes will look good anywhere, not to be limited to just one country. Chic is international." She has had to fight the rigid division in the trade between "dressmaking" and "tailoring." A lot of her designs for suits and coats have been greeted with a supercilious, "Oh, but that's dressmaking." She says: "There are so many people who won't change. It's got to be done, but it takes time."
love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
Jean Muir: Aged 32, Jean Muir is tiny, dynamic, with enormous eyes and smile. In the midst of the Courreges/Ungaro trend which has swept and almost monopolised the country, she has continually and successfully kept a "prettiness" trend going. Whenever journalists needed an illustration for prettier, wearable, simply feminine clothes to back their forcasts for "The My Fair Lady Look" or "The Viva Maria Look" they used her designs.
She started the firm Jane and Jane four years ago, having worked in Liberty's, where she learned her love of extravagant fabric, and in Jaegar's, where she learned a basic simplicity of design. She aims to design for the woman between 20 and 40, and says that she prefers the words gentle and even ladylike to pretty, which may have been used too much. She has a considerable following in America, and - most recnetly - in Australia.
"Chic" is a word she often uses. "I like to feel that my clothes will look good anywhere, not to be limited to just one country. Chic is international." She has had to fight the rigid division in the trade between "dressmaking" and "tailoring." A lot of her designs for suits and coats have been greeted with a supercilious, "Oh, but that's dressmaking." She says: "There are so many people who won't change. It's got to be done, but it takes time."
