Thank you Katy for the offer. The more I work on these designers, the more
I realize that this project really needed to be done. This set of designers
that I am working are from a 1896 source. I am finding very little
information in my designer books and on the web. These designers were the
top designers for the royalty of Europe. Such a shame that history seems to
have forgotten them. I just worked on index webpages for two design houses,
Vogel in the Netherlands, and Manning in Ireland that made fashions for the
Queens and their courts of their respective countries. Both fashion houses
had been in business for at least 60 years according to my 1896 source. The
only Vogel that I found information was the founder of Bon Ton Ton magazine.
This one couldn't have been the Vogel that I needed because he would have
been designing for the courts at 10 years old. LOL!!! I feel like I am
lost in space/cyberland/history with these designers. When I do a Google on
them... the only webpages about these designers are mine. My son suggested
I have a Quigi (sp) book and talk with the designers!
To top that off, I just won an ebay auction with more fashions from these
European designers. This book is also from 1896.
I will email you privately with a list of the designers that I am working
on. If the information is in French, my intern will translate them. One
day, I will make it to the community college and take French classes.
Penny E. Ladnier
Owner,
The Costume Gallery, www.costumegallery.com
Costume Classroom, www.costumeclassroom.com
Costume Research Library, www.costumelibrary.com
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