André

Adeline (1946). French designer. She created the single-leg skirt, a garment which covers one leg totally and leaves the other completely bare. Some of her designs are on permanent display at the Fashion Institute of Technology. From 1969 to 1972 she was an asssistant to Marc Bohan at Dior. In 1973 she created the women’s prêt-à-porter Collection for Louis Féraud. In collaboration with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, she designed her first complete Collection in 1976. In 1981 she started her own business. Beginning in 1992 she toured the world’s most important cities with her prèmiere and workers, showing men’s and women’s made-to-measure clothes. Since 1994 she has been in charge of the knitwear Collection for Nina Ricci.
She launched her first haute couture Collection and worked for Les 3 Suisses, designing exclusive styles for the 1998 season.
The year of her first prêt-à-porter Collection in Paris. She designed costumes for the theater and also designed the Bettina line. She worked with the Canadian designer Daniel Storto, famous overseas for his leather gloves. In Paris, Adeline’s models wore “Siamese-twin gloves,” a single glove which splits from the elbow down.
For the Autumn-Winter season, as reported by the newspapers, Adeline “seems to return to the origins of fashion.”