At 21:23 03/09/2008, you wrote:
I am working on history of fashion designers
from the early 20th Century and have a few questions.
Paquin:
I have that Mme Paquin business was from
1891-1956. Does anyone know her first name? I
can't find it in my resources. Also I have
come across some French images in 1919 for a
Joseph Paquin. Would Joseph be a relative
working under Mme Paquin's label or house?
Lady Duff Gordon: Did she go by several
names. I have in 1907 an illustrator and
designer named Lucy and in the 1910s
Lucille. Could this be Lady Duff Gordon?
This one I know - yes "Lucille" was Lady Duff Gordon.
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff Gordon (née
Sutherland)
(<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/June_13>June
13, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/1863>1863
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/April_20>April
20,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/1935>1935)
was a leading
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Fashion_design>fashion
designer in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, best known as "Lucile," her
professional name. She opened branches of her
London
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Couture>couture
house in
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Paris>Paris,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/New_York_City>New
York City and
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Chicago>Chicago,
dressing high society, the stage and early silent
cinema[1]. Lucy Duff Gordon is also remembered as
a survivor of the sinking of the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/RMS_Titanic>RMS
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/RMS_Titanic>Titanic
in 1912, and as the losing
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Party_(law)>party
in the precedent-setting 1917
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Contract>contract
law
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Legal_case>case
of
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Wood_v._Lucy,_Lady_Duff-Gordon>Wood
v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, in which Judge
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Benjamin_N._Cardozo>Benjamin
N. Cardozo wrote the opinion for New York's
highest court, the New York Court of Appeals[2]
From Wikipedia, but also via, in less detail my
tutor at the London College of Fashion some years ago.
The others I can't help with.
Suzi
Can anyone suggest a book that would include
lesser known designers from pre-1930s? I have a
lot of designer images without an information about their business.
For example:
Womenwear: Lewis 1910s, Bernard 1910s, Klein
1910s, Nicole Groult, and Germaine
1900s-1920s. Etienne Drian, 1900s-1910s, I have
info that he was an illustrator but I have
images from several magazines that refer to him
as a fashion designer. I have a small paragraph
in one of my books about him.
Menswear: Kriegck 1920s, Larsen 1920s
Milliner: Cora Marson, Camille Roger 1910s-1920s
Hair Designs: Emile 1920s
This is just a few of the designers that I need
information. I actually have about 100
designers with lots of images and no background information to go online.
I started this project to shed light on
designers so that people would know other
designers were important that time seems to have
forgotten. I guess the fashion history books
have forgotten them too. I would at least like
to provide some career highlights for each designer.
I am revamping my Designers of Their Time
website,
http://www.costumegallery.com/Designers/ . I am
about 2/3 finished with the website's
makeover. Now visitors can click on the
designer names and go to their pages and view
career highlights and thumbnail images in our
collection. Each designer's page has a
beautiful background with their fashion illustrations.
Penny Ladnier,
Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites
www.costumegallery.com
www.costumelibrary.com
www.costumeclassroom.com
www.costumeslideshows.com
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