European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse New fashion rage based on Barbie doll collection at Barbie dolts on tit Apty at w american toy to tar. By Sarah Tippit the Baltimore Sun it s not even 10 o clock in the to summer morning and designer Charlotte Neuville sporting Tiamo co Cirod it suck a flip Hairdo and Silver cat Eye glasses moves about her showroom wild the enthusiasm of a la her Day Gadget. Tall and trim. The 36-Yoat-Otd san Francisco Nativo is describing her 1989 resort collection inspired by the Barbie doll. It s whimsy in s happiness. It s Barbie gone modern. It s Barbio doll colors totally translated Lor the 80s woman Sho said i was thinking in terms of Barbie acc also Barb o has a lot of memories or to 1 grew up with her. I dressed and undressed her i made an explosion Olbright and shiny Pink Orange and Green Cottons and Silks some bearing Large Floral pants or polka dels the collection emphasizes a hipped a Waist pared Down Torso and voluminous skirt a la Barbie circa 1950. Neuville said she studied Billy boy s Book on Barbio As Well As photos of her intends prom dresses Tho rage Over Neuville s fashions since she Well Solo a year and a halt ago has grown steadily with each collection. Buyers on both sides of the Atlantic from stores like Saks fill Avenue to Harrod s in London arc snapping up her clothes As last As she can make them while much of the fashion Industry is in a mild buying slump the buyers say they want hgr clothing because she has a keen understanding of what women realty want to Wear yet delivers the whimsy that s currently a Rigour at an Allor Dabic Price. We re All obsessed about being totally overweight she quipped sipping Coffee from a White porcelain cup. I Ryo design around that jokes aside. Neuville pioneers a look department stores called Young designer and seems to have bridged the Gap Bel Weon classic yet unchanging separates and elaborate unaffordable fantasy clothes said Joan Kaner a spokeswoman Lor Macy s although she shares fabric Mills with such designers As Donna Karan and Calvin Klein her cloth of Cost roughly half Erma Bombeck the Price. Her highest in cd Spring Blouse a Pale yellow italian Linen with textured Gray ribbon embroidery costs $210 while the most expensive jacket in her All collection retails or �42d, she said. She is tremendously Kaner said hers is a very original collection with a very special feeling and it s Selling very Well. One of the charms of in is that the prices Are in line Lor a Youthful designer customer her Liny showroom perched above new York City 3 seventh Avenue is already Jam packed and it soon May Reed revamping because Neuville has quadrupled her sates in a year and a Hall. This year Sho has sold some $7 million Worth of Cio Lucr four times More than she sold last year. Next year she expects her company to bring in j12 million. Shoppers won t find anything Bland when browsing her collections. I try to deliver the sophistication one finds in Europe with the freshness and excitement you Lind in Neuville said. Neuville1 More Basic Lall items still prove both original and versatile. One popular piece is a Corseletti accessory that can be paired with last season s Blacks or a skirt Tor the a Wesl High waited look the piece also has detachable suspenders. Neuville also delivers on new skirts and Slacks. Simple in color and line the wide legged Slacks and Lineo Lenglin Biach Skirls Hilling the Racks this fall All Bear meticulous attention to detail whether in the form of fancy notched stitching at the Waist or a single italian filigree Button. She also takes risks while designing. L Don t have a technique but i m consistent. I am looking around constantly. I May get an idea from a subway lilo. This morning in the Shower i stalled brains coming new her fall 1988 merchant of Venice collection she said was inspired by 10th Century menswear and venetian awnings and Wall textures. Bell shaped jackets Are done in Gold italian silk iridescent taffeta suits come in wide venetian awning stripes of ochre and Black. What she has dubbed her schoolgirl for grown ups collection. Inspired by a children s Book by Kay Thompson about a precocious irreverent Little girl named Eloisa who lives in new York City s Plaza hotel is altering Lor Many body types. The Kicky parisian looking separates involve juxtaposition of old favourites dark plaids. Altering lengths easy lines with new fabric textures. Some of the skirts and Long shorts in the collection Are made in a shirred elasticized stretch Wool Neuville a bounced successfully from schoolgirl to italian Royalty to Barbie in springtime. What s coming nest in Spring 19897 it s Only logical that i love Lucy came afterwards she said declining to elaborate further until the collection is finished. Afler graduating with an Art degree from Williams College in Williams own mass. She tried painting for a year but gravitated toward designing because i did t Havo the guts to stick it after three years at Parsons Schoof of design she became one of the earliest assistants to the late Perry Ellis when he was still designing his portfolio collection Tor Vcra sportswear. Later because she did t want to slay stagnant she went to work for Adrienne Vil Tadini Jonas new York and Leslie Fay s outlander division. With each position she gained experience end contacts in new York and abroad becoming known a a knit Wear special isl. During this time Neuville was approached by backers several limes bul said she was t prepared to go on her own yet. I think i was always unconsciously going for my own business she said. But i m a perfection stand f just was t ironically it in not a business proposition that of malay convinced Neuville to Start her own company but a Chance encounter four years ago while Walling in line for a movie. Attorney Ken Mario struck up a conversation with her and the first meeting led to a first Dale and marriage a year later. Mario abandoned his Law career to become Neuville s business partner and in december 1986 her company was born. Since its inception investors have been coming out of the Woodwork she said crossing lha showroom to Greet a buyer from Macy s. This in t lha place Leomo Lor Basic blazers and it won t be she said. I would t bother to have my own company just to took like anybody for my wedding anniversary one of my kids bought me a speech training cassette Lor my pet Bird i be had the Bird in my once for three years now. And he s never done anything but dribble Peanut shells All Over the Lionor and occasionally Fly Over my typewriter and make tapioca now he was Aboul Losili around and hum opera Lunes. The instructions on the cassette were rather simple. For 20 i nulls twice a Day. The Bird would listen to live repetitive phrases a Soliloquy from Hamlet and Arias from Carmen and Madame Bittl Cofty. The phrases somehow seemed ludicrous. The first one was. Hey. Come on Over of so let s assume i Rush from the other end of the House to his Cage. Now what s to going to say phrase no. 2 i m a Page 16 the stars and stripes bad Birds he tries to fat and he s going to spend the rest of his Bird Lite looking at the wrong Side of a Cage cover. The Bird needed a finish Lor it like there s a Gas leak or i be sent out for the instructions suggested you clip your Bird s primary flight feathers so he can t try. They said it would make him dependent on you As a Trainer. I said it would give him Speed when he tried to throw himself Oil a ledge alter listening to 20 minutes of a Bird la la ing the Toreador i was attracted originally of my Bird As a pet because he is a lot Tike my husband hell Tell you his name when you ask and when the phone rings Rte will say Telephone but make no move to answer in they Are both limited to those two words. Monday september 12,1988 somehow thought the cassette would stretch the Bird s talents so that he could laugh out loud once in a while when i read one of my columns to him. That probably comes after he learns to recite the Cuns dilution and hum the Saber but i m hanging in there 20 minutes twice a Day. To be or not to be. I m a bad Birds. Hey come on Over Here. What Are you doing last night my husband looked up from his paper and chirped Hay come on Over t walked Over to his chair and asked what do you want i Haven t the foggiest notion a said puzzled. For no reason i just fell like saying Ai lease one item has started to talk
