Well, I bit the bullet this morning and ordered a Gaby BB tourterelle with GHW---haven't seen it in person nor tried it on, so hoping I'll love it!
I spoke with the SA about the new designs and he said, so you are "mixed", and I said no, I'm not even mixed about them. That they were derivative and not elegant. I told him that I feared I was not a target client any longer...
He told me that he had heard the same from many of their other clients and would pass it on to management. However, he did confirm that from Paris he was told that for sure they would continue to make, and as reported by others here, the Rejane, the Gaby, and the Gabrielle, and maybe even the Cabotin (!!!!!).
He also said that it might be possible to special order an older discontinued design... For the longest time, I was thinking about one of the beautiful but supremely impractical mini-vanities... and I guess there are a few of them hanging around still. The one I was curious about isn't in inventory any longer but he said that maybe it could be special ordered.
It will be interesting to hear how things go moving forward. Anyway, that's my report for today!