Adeline Andre is born in Bagui; French Equatorial Africa, where her family mined gold and diamonds.During her adolescense she dreamt of becoming a fashion photographer and left for London. Returning to Paris she enrolled in the "Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne" (School of the Syndicate Chamber of Parisian Couture).
She took fine art lessons given by Salvador Dali at the Meurice Hotel and entered in 1970 at Cristian Dior working next to Marc Bohan as an assistan for the Haute Couture collections.
In 1981 Adeline decided to launch the brand ADELINE ANDRE.
August 27th of the same year Adeline registered the original pattern of her three-sleeve-hole garment at the I.NP.I. (National Institute of Industrial Property) in Paris and February 26th 1982 at the W.I.P.O. (World Intellectual Property Organization) in Geneva. Among other works three-sleeve-hole garments are also part of museum collections such as the French Fashion Museum in Paris, the F.I.T. (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York and recently the new Fashion Museum in Lisbon.
Her first show a ready-to-wear collection for Fall-Winter 83/84 was held at the Daniel Templon Gallery in Paris March 16th 1983. Staged within a grand painting-set by Gerard Garouste the guests, wearing the garments posed for giant Polaroid shots.
The label ADELINE ANDRÉ has been officially registered in Paris November 1983.
Up until March 1987 Adeline presented her collections in places that had never before been used for fashion shows for example the "Cour Vitree" of the Natial School of Fine Arts at Rue Bonaparte, or the "Grand Salon" of the International Conferences Center at Avenue Kleber. In these places she showed her collections on models such as Dovanna, Anh Duong, Terry Toye... whom she asked to mingle among the guests.The following years Adeline André concentrated on creating collections exclusively for her private clientele, male and female, for whom she produced new bespoken designs, displayed for the first time at parties called "topowear", traveling private shows in galleries, ateliers or the salons of her friends in either Paris, London and New York.
May 1997 Adeline became an invited-member of the Syndicate Chamber of Parisian Couture. For the first time, as officially part of the Haute Couture shows organized by the Syndicate Chamber she presented her Fall-Winter 97/98 Couture collection July 7th at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art at Boulevard Raspail.1997 December Adeline was appointed "Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
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