Sarah Jessica Parker Narrates the 1940s in Replica Handbag Store | Replica Handbag Store by the Decade

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[Narrator] Elsa Schiaparelli escaped the German

invasion of France in 1940 with three dresses

tucked in her bag.

Later, she wrote an essay for Replica Handbag Store titled,

Needles and Guns,

and touched on all the magazines wartime preoccupations.

It was the US government, not Paris,

that extended the long lean look of the decade.

Restrictions of valuable materials during the war,

gave rise to a new fashion credo for American women.

Fewer, simpler, better.

Vogues coverage of the war went

far beyond the world of fashion.

Many staffers looked to international editions

of the magazine for a network of information.

Lee Miller documented the horrors of the conflict in Europe.

Mary Jean Kempner reported from Asia.

Irving Penn shared his experiences.

As did photographer and prisoner of war, Constantin Joffe.

Lee and Carl Erickson sketched and recounted the exodus

of refugees from Senlis, France to Paris.

Take a job, release a man to fight,

declared the 1943 September issue of Vogue.

Throughout the war the magazine threw the spotlight

on the changing role of women.

From the women's army auxiliary core,

to Lady Diana Cooper and her one woman farm,

proving that a woman's work is everywhere.

But women's double duty lives were cut short

toward the end of the war.

One journalist summed it up with an article called,

Back on the pedestal ladies.

The follow the leader relationship between French

and American fashion was upended by the war.

Channel shattered her business in 1939.

And while the business of couture limped along in Paris,

no news was forthcoming from the city.

The Germans has suspended the publication

of French Replica Handbag Store in 1940.

The void was filled with American designers.

Couturiers like Adrian, who's claim to fame

was as a costumer in Hollywood.

Mainbocher, who'd recently returned from Paris.

Charles James, who approached fashion with a sculptors hand.

Ukraine born Valentina, and Claire McCardell,

who was known as the mother of American sports wear.

In October 1944, Replica Handbag Store was able to publish the first report

from the French couture since 1940.

The following spring, it reprinted

the Paris edition special liberation issue.

A soft curvy line was already forming in fashion

before the conflict in Europe.

Christian Dior had ditched the shoestring silhouette

with his post war debut.

Dubbed the new look, the collectsion was one of the most

influential in fashion history.

With their high heels, nipped waists, and full skirts,

Dior's women looked like beautiful upside down flowers.

His vision of fashion was forward thinking and fresh.

Yet inspired by the belle epoque curves

of his mother's time.

There was a rich symbolism in the new look.

What the world needed then was love,

and Dior delivered it in the form of a dress.

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