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Marion Davies carries her
clothes extremely well . . .
and goes in for simple things.
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Red Mill"
He finds it difficult to dress Greta Garbo, for she has foreign ideas about dress . . . she likes short skirts when she should wear long ones . . . and she has innumerable dislikes. This Andre-Ani gown Miss Garbo wears in "Flesh and the Devil"
The Confidences of Andre
Ani, the Man Who Dresses
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YOU can learn two things from Mr. Andre-Ani. One is about designing for the movie stars. The other, quite logically, is about women.
Any man who is costumer extraordinary for M-G-M ; who has dressed numerous stars for purposes professional and personal ought to be well informed feministically. Mr. Andre-Ani is. ■
He has seen sides (no pun) of Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Claire Windsor, Mae Murray, Marion Davies, etc., etc., that none of us would ever see unless we were suddenly called in to do battle with shears and fabrics and colors and line and other such tools of the art of costume designing.
Lest the suspense kill you, we will say here and now that Mr. Andre-Ani is very far from being disillusioned about the stars. He is disillusioned otherwise, but that is something else again. No, he says that the stars are not temperamental or difficult or high hat, or petulant or exacting or any of those unpleasant things. At most, some of them know what they want and how they want it, but Mr. Andre-Ani is all for that. He believes, as do all genuine creators, that all of us can learn, that no one of us knows everything even about his chosen calling.
All of which is just another medal for the stars. For if beautiful women are not temperamental about their clothes, what would they be temperamental about ? Answer being "Nothing."
Here Andre-Ani and Renee Brouillet consider a gown being designed for one of the stars in his atelier at the studios / /