Poupie Cadolle on creating couture lingerie for Hollywood stars
April 9, 2016 by admin
Filed under Latest Lingerie News
Cadolle, celebrated in the VA’s show Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear, has furnished everyone from film goddesses such as Monica Bellucci, who had her corset for Spectre made here, to Wallis Simpson, a customer of Poupie’s mother, Alice, although no love was lost between them – Poupie sums her up simply as ‘not nice’.
And as for the deceitful horizontale Mata Hari – ‘she had no bust at all,’ Poupie says, witheringly. ‘Plump, but no bust.’ Dead spies, clearly, lose all rights to confidentiality, but behind a painted panel is a secret niche where they safeguard the smalls of their current clients, who are ‘superstars and politicians’. Rachida Dati, perhaps? All the management will say is ‘not Angela Merkel’.
Inside the atelier
Below stairs, three women (they will not employ men, even those who plead homosexuality) are stitching away on pneumatic, reticulated body shapers in styles that sound like code names: Fatale, Monaco and Merry Widow (made to measure, €1,300).
