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Nina Ricci (1883-1970)

In the 10th instalment of BoF’s fashion history series we study the self-taught seamstress who started her company on the insistence of her entrepreneurial son. She created democratic high fashion for the upper middle classes, and her couture could undercut Lanvin and Chanel by a third. But for this reason she was never mentioned in the same breath by high society.

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Nina Ricci (1883-1970)

In the 10th instalment of BoF’s fashion history series we study the self-taught seamstress who started her company on the insistence of her entrepreneurial son. She created democratic high fashion for the upper middle classes, and her couture could undercut Lanvin and Chanel by a third. But for this reason she was never mentioned in the same breath by high society.


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Jean Patou (1880-1936)

Chanel’s greatest rival in the battle for the post-World War I customer established the modern ideal of beauty when he hired long-limbed, flat-chested models with short hair from the USA.

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Jean Patou (1880-1936)

Chanel’s greatest rival in the battle for the post-World War I customer established the modern ideal of beauty when he hired long-limbed, flat-chested models with short hair from the USA.


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Oscar de la Renta's Career Remembered

"The crowd at the SCAD Museum of Art's private opening for the " Oscar de la Renta : His Legendary World of Style" exhibit on Wednesday night was a

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Oscar de la Renta's Career Remembered

"The crowd at the SCAD Museum of Art's private opening for the " Oscar de la Renta : His Legendary World of Style" exhibit on Wednesday night was a