Page 44 - Ritz Issue 50

BILLREED FASHION
Truth of the matter is, February is one fuscous bonk of a month. Everybody hates feeble, furfuraceous old Feb. Even the most celebrated funambulist looks forward to substituting the more fashionable funicular for his frumpy old tightrope and those who fundamentally faint for fashion can hardly bear to wait for the promises of· merry March and the fabulous new clothes collections.
But, hang onto your garter belts girls. The wait won't be quite that long. On February 25th, Elle's Fashion Director, MAUREEN DOHERTY, will give London an entire shop devoted to the fantastic KAMIKAZE look. The spring/summer '81 collection is an amusing fusion of South American ethnic with Japanese sensibility. The main colours are red and pink. Printed denim figures heavily. And the price is right.
If the price is one of your life's main concerns, then facial treatment in RICCI BURNS' new salon will be right up your. alley. It feels marvellous, costs almost peanuts and the results are, if nothing else, a delicious trip'. FIONA MOORE is
the expert who conducts the magic and her speciality is looking after the curious requirements of the male face. As far as we can tell, the only place in town where a man can have facial treatment.
Some sort of magic was definitely called for in January in order to cope with the inevitable post-nativity blues.
Christmas couldn't have been more fashion orientated . .The Sunday Times' (or so it appears at least) BARBARA GRIGGS on Christmas Eve, the Daily Telegraph's ANN CHUBB on Christmas Day, and the Telegraph Sunday Magazine's RUTH LYNAM on Boxing Day. All that time with all those fashion editresses and not a frock was discussed. We did discuss SUE BLAIR who works with RUTH. BLAIR is preggers, potential fashion editors of the world. Rush down to Shoe Lane and join the line-up for her job - that isifyou can get her to give it up. Having worked at the Telegraph for 13 years makes her virtually immutable. And being with child appears to root her even more firmly to the Fleet Street turf.
The most glam way to shod one's roots in an affordable manner is with the beautiful shoes created by MOYA BOWLER and now available at your favourite shop in England as well as in America. MOYA . recently saw to it that the dashing PETER SAXTON, ertswhile shoe designer for SACHA, was detai.ned in England long enough to help her design and organise her international advertising campaign. He will soon return to America to provide -design services for an undisclosed company, but will continue to produce his couture collection of shoes. '
Once you've looked after the furtherest point of your anatomy, covering up the top half will be ever so exciting, particularly if you get into the animal sweaters by PATRICIA ROBERTS, or the Egyptian inspired pullies by ARTWORK, or the beaded and leather-lashed examples
offered by LUMIERE. All three
collections are knitted in cotton and will travel easily even if your most romantic port-of-call is the office in the morning . followed by a quick trip to the Venue or Le Kilt in the evening.
Both those clubs appear to be the scene of much activity involving the neo- romantics dressed by VIVIEN WESTWOOD at World's End and
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HELEN ROBINSON at PX. New Years Eve found loads of makeshift pirates, buccaneers, and CHOPINettes -lingering under the stairs at Legends. BARRY HANKINSON appeared as the LONE RANGER - God knows what that has to do with the period-and PAUL BENSON looked dashing in a tie and the proper surrounding bits. CAMPBELL PALMER found the excitement of his guests too hot to handle and left shortly after midnight. Over at the Embassy, STEPHEN HAYTER tried to keep cool with bottle after bottle of champagne while watching his guests mill happily about dressed as every conceivable character from the MAD HA TTER's tea party. All in all, however, not as much attention was paid to dressing up as one might expect.
Fashionable dress codes were delightfully adhered to at three of the new year's most devilish parties designed to pole-vault us quite happily into and out of January. The first was MICHAEL SMITH's super smart luncheon at Waltons in Walton Street. LADY PULBROOK described herself as owning a 'little flower shop in Sloane Street'; super PR chic Mrs
SABATINI appeared in a perfectiy co- ordinated wine coloured be-feathered hat and suit; and JOAN CHAPMAN or Woman's Own explained that 'the reason tenors are_considered more sexy than sopranos is because sopranos concentrate on their diaphrams too much.'
The second treat was PETER TORY's HICKEY party at the Ritz Casino. MOIRA LISTER looked divine in vintage DIOR worn with an up-to-the-moment white organza ruff ala THEA PORTER around her throat. MANDY RICE-
DA VIES was in pristine black and looked thinner and younger than ever. The most splendidly dressed guest of all proved to be the formidable DIANA DORS. She came in ice blue slipper satin and lace which looked a bit like JANET REAGER avant couche wear. Everybody loved her clear plastic high school prom· give-it-to-me pumps. She was being protected by..a .. sequin-blazered swimming pool builder
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Moira Lis/er and Bill Reed al °William Hickey parly pholo Richard Young .
which just goes to prove that blondes still • have more fun. En avant MILES
CHAPMAN, le nouveau blond. NICHOLAS J. B. ARMSTRONG's
dinner party for 50 friends gets top awards for 'Divine Means of Coping' with '81. NICKY threw open the glass doors of his drawing room onto the garden which had been covered with a heated yellow and white striped tent. LADY PULBROOK provided lovely lemon, apple and tiger lily trees throughout the house and garden and guests dined superbly on food from the kitchens of LADY ELISABETH ANSON. Madame JEAN BAUBRAND came in FORTUNY, COMTESSE DOMINIQUE DE BORCHGRAVE was in a dress by MARY MCFADDEN, and
MARGARET, DUCHESS OF ARGYLL turned up in chic GIVENCHY black. There were loads of Queen's-guards- looking guys in black-tie-of-course and not one LAURA ASHLEY clad dame amongst them. __ .
It is absolutely true that GA YIN
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ROBINSON ha.s finally turned sixteen (years that is).and celebrated the fact with a party at the Embassy; that DAVID SHILLING has been in business only five years and hosted a clever little drinks party to thank us all for wearing his hats (not I, my wife, CHRISTINE did at our wedding); that PAUL DEWEY is finally twenty-one (God, it's worse than JASPER) and he still lives on the Redcliffe tube line, get off at Ashley Blues and change for the Aussie line; that RICHARD DAWSON (little plum that he is) is going to design the first ever· menswear collection for Esprit de Corps; that DAVID PHILIPS insists that RICHARD REYNOLDS reads Ritz; that the entire MSF corps de ballet attended MOLLY PARKIN's New Year's day party; and that the BAILEY LITCHFIELD team q;:is b<;~_ntoo divine for words. 'Bye girls. And thanks heaps for the glamouritz.
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