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‘Fashions of the Fifties’ brings back old-time glamor
(Nashua, NH) FASHIONS OF THE 50's, 60's & 70's is a fashion show to benefit the Nashua Sculpture Symposium being held at Palm Square on November 21, 2009 at 2 PM. The show will feature the wardrobe of early women CEO Joanna Tatle and the top fashion designers of the period.Model Jenny Page is shown here wearing one of the outfits from the collection of vintage fashion to be presented. The wardrobe includes designs by Adolfo, Cache, Liz Clairborne, Courreges, Anne Crimmins, Oscar de le Renta, Pucci, St. John, Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino (Photo courtesy of Dan Splaine/TEST of TIME PHOTO)
(Nashua, NH) FASHIONS OF THE 50's, 60's & 70's is a fashion show to benefit the Nashua Sculpture Symposium being held at Palm Square on November 21, 2009 at 2 PM. The show will feature the wardrobe of early women CEO Joanna Tatle and the top fashion designers of the period.Model Carla Eaton is shown here wearing one of the outfits from the collection of vintage fashion to be presented. The wardrobe includes designs by Adolfo, Cache, Liz Clairborne, Courreges, Anne Crimmins, Oscar de le Renta, Pucci, St. John, Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino (Photo courtesy of Dan Splaine/TEST of TIME PHOTO)
(Nashua, NH) FASHIONS OF THE 50's, 60's & 70's is a fashion show to benefit the Nashua Sculpture Symposium being held at Palm Square on November 21, 2009 at 2 PM. The show will feature the wardrobe of early women CEO Joanna Tatle and the top fashion designers of the period.Model Amethyst Wyldfire is shown here wearing one of the outfits from the collection of vintage fashion to be presented. The wardrobe includes designs by Adolfo, Cache, Liz Clairborne, Courreges, Anne Crimmins, Oscar de le Renta, Pucci, St. John, Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino (Photo courtesy of Dan Splaine/TEST of TIME PHOTO)
(Nashua, NH) FASHIONS OF THE 50's, 60's & 70's is a fashion show to benefit the Nashua Sculpture Symposium being held at Palm Square on November 21, 2009 at 2 PM. The show will feature the wardrobe of early women CEO Joanna Tatle and the top fashion designers of the period.Model Robin Ann Peters is shown here wearing one of the outfits from the collection of vintage fashion to be presented. The wardrobe includes designs by Adolfo, Cache, Liz Clairborne, Courreges, Anne Crimmins, Oscar de le Renta, Pucci, St. John, Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino (Photo courtesy of Dan Splaine/TEST of TIME PHOTO)
(Nashua, NH) FASHIONS OF THE 50's, 60's & 70's is a fashion show to benefit the Nashua Sculpture Symposium being held at Palm Square on November 21, 2009 at 2 PM. The show will feature the wardrobe of early women CEO Joanna Tatle and the top fashion designers of the period.Model Michelle Crouch is shown here wearing one of the outfits from the collection of vintage fashion to be presented. The wardrobe includes designs by Adolfo, Cache, Liz Clairborne, Courreges, Anne Crimmins, Oscar de le Renta, Pucci, St. John, Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino (Photo courtesy of Dan Splaine/TEST of TIME PHOTO)
(Nashua, NH) FASHIONS OF THE 50's, 60's & 70's is a fashion show to benefit the Nashua Sculpture Symposium being held at Palm Square on November 21, 2009 at 2 PM. The show will feature the wardrobe of early women CEO Joanna Tatle and the top fashion designers of the period.Model Robin Ann Peters is shown here wearing one of the outfits from the collection of vintage fashion to be presented. The wardrobe includes designs by Adolfo, Cache, Liz Clairborne, Courreges, Anne Crimmins, Oscar de le Renta, Pucci, St. John, Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino (Photo courtesy of Dan Splaine/TEST of TIME PHOTO)
(Nashua, NH) FASHIONS OF THE 50's, 60's & 70's is a fashion show to benefit the Nashua Sculpture Symposium being held at Palm Square on November 21, 2009 at 2 PM. The show will feature the wardrobe of early women CEO Joanna Tatle and the top fashion designers of the period.Model Jenny Page is shown here wearing one of the outfits from the collection of vintage fashion to be presented. The wardrobe includes designs by Adolfo, Cache, Liz Clairborne, Courreges, Anne Crimmins, Oscar de le Renta, Pucci, St. John, Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino (Photo courtesy of Dan Splaine/TEST of TIME PHOTO)
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By KELLY McGRATH Staff Writer
NASHUA – There was a time when women took shorthand from the men in power. During that time, one woman born to Italian immigrants decided she wasn’t going to sit back and simply serve coffee. She was going to make something of her life.
Joanna Tatle Reiss not only made it into the corporate world, but she dressed the part. Designers like Yves Saint Laurent traveled to New York City just to fill her closet with the newest fashions.
Tatle Reiss, the aunt of media personality and New Hampshire politician Arnie Arnesen, opens her closet, filled with Paris, Milan and New York designs, to the public Saturday, Nov. 21.
“The clothes are fabulous, but the afternoon is so much more. It is a tribute to those edge-walking women who demanded their piece of the power pie before the women’s movement gave us permission to step out onto the world stage,” Tatle Reiss wrote in a press release.
The “Fashions of the Fifties” was organized by longtime Nashua resident and close friend of Arnesen, Meri Goyette. Proceeds from the event will benefit Nashua’s Sculpture Symposium, created by the Andres Institute of Art, a nonprofit organization co-founded by John Weidman and Paul Andres. Artists from around the world are invited into the symposium program where they’re paid a stipend of $5,000 to create artwork for the public to enjoy.
The idea for the fashion show came relatively easy. Tatle Reiss relocated back to the United States from Paris in recent weeks, and Goyette soon had some of the most beautiful designer clothes she’d seen stored at her house.
“At the time, I needed money for the Sculpture Symposium and there I had these clothes in my closet,” Goyette said.
“So I said to (Arnesen), ‘I got something for you to do. Why don’t you emcee a fashion show, and I’ll show your aunt’s clothes to make money for the symposium.’ ”
Clothes in the fashion show were designed by Adolfo, Cache, Liz Calirborne, Courreges, Anne Crimmins, Oscar de la Renta, Pucci, Rodier, St. John, Yves Saint Laurent, Ungaro and Valentino.
Models include Alice Silver, Robin Ann Peters, Debbie Pignatelli, Michelle Crouch, Jenny Page, Amethyst Wyldfyre, Carla Eaton, Annette Plante and Ruth Cherry. Escorts for the event will be Weidman, Ken Silber, George Russell, Chris Williams, Mark Cookson, Ricardo Azocar, Bob Cagen, Frank Teas, Gary Hinkle and Tim Glenday.
“Some are professional models, one is the president of a bank and another is a chamber of commerce president,” Goyette said.
Although no meal will be provided during the fundraiser, Goyette organized a lunch buffet to take place at 1 p.m. For anyone interested, the lunch costs $10, paid directly to the Estabrook Grill Hall.
At 2 p.m., the models will head down the runway in daytime, semi formal and evening wear to music played by John Halbert.
“This afternoon, you will be taken back to the time of a woman who chose to wear the art of Paris fashion designers,” the program reads. “Your clothes may be the expression by which your world knows you. “
