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Article: MADELEINE VIONNET; A YOUTH MOVEMENT FOR THE VENERABLE COUTURIERE.(Brief Article)(Interview)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- September 13, 1999
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"They remember me."
The way Madeleine Vionnet says it, it is a fact. Not a question.
"Speak to any dressmaker and they'll tell you. `There's one Madeleine Vionnet. Only one.' Now you see it. Only it's too late. I'm going to be 93 next June...nearly a century. So fashion is finished for me. I think of it by habit. When I was a dressmaker, I did what I felt. I never copied anyone. I was a dressmaker. I knew how to make a dress with my own hands...."
"I tried to make [women] look tall and slim. But to be elegant...that's something else. First of all, it's the shape of the woman. If you are born plump, you ...