ThE WaNtEd FaShIoNs....

BIOGRAPHY:-
Adeline Andre is born in Bangui, French Equatorial Africa, where her family mined gold and diamonds.

Although Parisian, she has Scottish roots and is the great-grand-daugther of the consructor of the first railway of Egypt which links up Cairo to Luxor.

During her adolescence she dreamt of becoming a fashion photographer and left for London. Returning to Paris she enrolled in the ÒEcole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture ParisienneÓ (School of the Syndicate Chamber of Parisian Couture). She took fine art lessons given by Salvador Dali at the Meurice Hotel and entered in 1970 at Christian Dior working next to Marc Bohan as an assistant for the Haute Couture collections.

1981 she met Stevan Dohar, a Hungarian architect and with the financial help of their friend Nicolas Puech-Hermes they decided to launch ADELINE ANDRE. August 27th of the same year Adeline Andre registrated the original pattern of her first three-sleeve-hole garment at the I.N.P.I. (National Institute of Industrial Property) in Paris and February 26th 1982 at the W.I.P.O. (World Intellectual Property Organization) in Geneva. Among other works three-sleeve-hole garments are also part of museum collections such as the French Fashion Museum in Paris, the F.I.T. (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York and recently the new Fashion Museum in Lisbon.

AdelineÕs first show a ready-to-wear collection for Fall-Winter 83/84 was held at the Daniel Templon Gallery in Paris March 16th 1983. Staged within a grand painting-set by Gerard Garouste the guests, wearing the garments, posed for giant Polaroid shots. The label ADELINE ANDRE has been officially registrated in Paris November 15th1983.

Up until March 1987 Adeline Andre presented her collections in places that had never before been used for fashion shows, the ÒCour VitreeÓ of the National School of Fine Arts at Rue Bonaparte, the ÒGrand SalonÓ of the International Conferences Center at Avenue Kleber (where the treaty of Paris was signed - putting an end to the Vietnam war) for examples.

In these places she showed her collections on models such as Dovanna, Anh Duong, Terry Toye, Angela Wild and Eugenie Vincent... whom she asked to mingle among the guests, creating this way a calm and intimate atmosphere as opposed to the stage shows of the time.