The world of fashion is forever subject to change. It develops as life develops, and life today is in atomic progress, especially in this century, the twentieth century.
Fashions submit to alterations dictated by the seasons: spring has a
A cocktail dress of white organza dotted with black, designed by Jacques Heim — representing the "puff" style
dress that differs completely from the dress of winter.
We ladies' tailors can do nothing but follow the development of fashion closely, acquainting ourselves with everything novel and new in it. I went to Paris out of my usual desire to see the latest with which its fashion houses have favored the world. We all know the first place that capital occupies in this field — I mean the field of the art of fashion — a place which no European or American capital has been able to contest with her. So I visited the two princes of elegance, Jacques Heim and Christian Dior, and others among those who impose their opinions in the world of fashion upon the most elegant women on earth.
What struck me in Dior's collection for summer '55 is this passage from the "H" line to the "A" line, without any serious difference in invention or in general form. On the whole one feels a lowering of the waist with Dior, as with the rest of the Parisian tailors. The waist has no fixed seat, but moves according to need, or according to the lady's view, just as it pleases whoever writes the letter "A" to place the middle bar of that letter. The shoulders have remained natural, while sleeves are absent from
The "puff" style by Jacques Heim