Coco Chanel
A radio telephone talk on the subject of fashion, by Madame Chanel, one of the most distinguished dress designers In the world, was transmitted from London last night shortly after 10 o'clock, through station 2UW.
The broadcast come from a room in the Ritz Hotel, London. Madame Chanel sent greetings to several of the leading stores in Sydney and Australia. She said that the desire to be dressed in the latest fashion was inspired by the wish to remain young and beautiful. Fashion was a great and serious work, and the sustained interest of women enabled millions of people throughout the world to be kept in constant employment in the fashion industry.
The famous designer suggested that men should take more interest In women's clothes, and should assist them in the choice of their fashions. To be elegantly dressed, she said, was to be suitably dressed. Being a woman, she was unable to know just what form the prevailing modes would take from day to day, and therefore gave no actual hints.
The address was preceded by an Introductory talk by Mrs. Albeit Littlejohn, who described the purchase of a frock from one of the great and exclusive fashion salons In Paris
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald , Friday 2 December 1932
