From: "Le Costume en Russie: XVIIIe-debut du XXe siecle" Musee de L'Hermitage 1983 (sorry I only have it in French)
Chanceau, Izambard. Propietaire d'un atelier de modes feminines actif a la fin du XIXe-debut du XXe siecle qui executait egalement des traines pour les robes de cour. Marque imprimee en lettres d'or sur un ruban de soie blanche ; au centre Izambard Chanceau St-Petersbourg, a droite et a gauche des ecussons les initiales M (then a Russian letter). In the book there is illustrated a court dress of deep red velvet with lots of gold embroiders and a cream underdress also with gold embroidery "seconde moitie du XIXe siecle" Katy On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Penny Ladnier wrote: >First off, I will be getting back to you all about your questions about the >Color Database. I am really sorry about my delay. After being sick last >week, I am pushing to wrap up the 1896 designers set, before this weekend. >Then I have to move on to the Costume Encyclopedia. I will catch up >in-between these projects. > >QUESTION: >I am looking for the fashion design house, A. Izambard in St. Petersburg, >Russia. If any of you have books on 19th Century fashion designers, can you >please look and see if this designer is listed. > >This is what I have so far for the designer... This was written in 1896: > >A. Izambard's Clientèle: >Hoflieferanten J.K.H >Prinzessin Friedrich Leopold Von Preussen. >De S.M. La Reine des Belges >Empress of Dowager at her coronation at Moscow > >The Maison Izambard of St. Petersburg had been in existence many years. The >design house made a specialty of court costumes, which were all of the same >pattern and colors at the Russian Court when worn by the ladies of honor to >Her Imperial Majesty. > >I have done a google on him and all I get is a romance writer. When I started >this Designers of Their Time series, it was to find designers that the general >public does not know for an era. But I am having trouble finding information >about 14 designers in 1896 who designed for the royal courts of Europe. > >Penny E. Ladnier >Owner, >The Costume Gallery, www.costumegallery.com >Costume Classroom, www.costumeclassroom.com >Costume Research Library, www.costumelibrary.com >_______________________________________________ >h-costume mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
