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Article: Liberating women's bodies Fashion Review
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Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
07-14-2009
Liberating women's bodies Fashion Review
Byline: Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES
Madeleine Vionnet, Puriste de la Mode. Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. Through Jan. 31.
Everything about Madeleine Vionnet seems utterly modern, from her emancipation of the female body to her timeless, uncluttered clothes.
To look at one of the designer's creations from 1936 - a bias-cut white crepe dress cinched with a gilded leaf belt - is to see the soul of her style and understand her self-definition: "What I did is not fashion - it was designed to last forever," she said ...