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5/5/95                  Janet McCoy

FASHION DESIGNER PAULINE TRIGERE TO SPEAK AT AU MAY 9

      AUBURN -- New York City fashion designer Pauline Trigere will 
speak to Auburn University students as the 1995 Grisham-Trentham Lecturer 
in the School of Human Sciences on Tuesday, May 9.
      Trigere, who developed the art of blending realism and style into 
clothes design 50 years ago, will speak at 10 a.m. in the Foy Union 
ballroom. The lecture is free and open to the public.
      Trigere's presence in American fashion began during World War II, 
when Paris was out of bounds for the U.S. fashion industry. New York 
designers responded by developing sportswear, but Trigere reproduced 
French haute couture with a different style.
      "Instead of making clothes to order, requiring numerous fittings, 
she took a short cut," says Gary Trentham, a professor in the Department 
of Consumer Affairs for whom the lectureship is named. "She made them in 
sizes, for stores to sell in their French rooms, to customers who could 
wear them immediately."
      "While American manufacturers tended to specialize in individual 
articles of apparel  -- coats and suits, for instance, dresses and 
evening dresses -- Ms. Trigere put everything together, couture style."
      This is the seventh year of the Grisham-Trentham Lectureship, 
named for Trentham and given by Charles and Betty Grisham of Huntsville. 
Trentham started the program nine years ago to bring internationally 
respected fashion experts to campus each spring. Grisham, a member of the 
AU class of 1939, and Mrs. Grisham are longtime supporters of AU.
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CONTACT: Trentham, 334/844-3084.