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Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born at the Palazzo Corsini, Rome. [8] Her mother, Giuseppa Maria de Dominicis, [9] was a Neapolitan aristocrat. [10] Her father, Celestino Schiaparelli, a Piedmontese, was an accomplished scholar with multiple areas of interest. [11]
Vera Ellen Wang was born June 27, 1949, [3] in New York City to Chinese parents who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1940s. Her mother, Florence Wu (Wu Chifang), worked as a translator for the United Nations, while her father, Cheng Ching Wang (Wang Chengqing), a graduate of Yanjing University and MIT, owned a medicine company, and held the following positions: Director, Singapore ...
Eileen Fisher Inc. is an American privately held company founded by Fisher in 1984 with $350 in startup money. [7] Her first order at a New York clothing design show was for $3,000, which was followed three months later with $40,000 in additional sales. [7]
This is a list of notable fashion designers sorted by nationality. It includes designers of haute couture and ready-to-wear. For haute couture only, see the list of grands couturiers. For footwear designers, see the list of footwear designers.
The Venezuelan fashion designer has one of the most celebrated careers in the industry. Her elegant dresses have been worn by many First Ladies including Jacqueline Onassis, Laura Bush and ...
Jean Muir was born in London, the daughter of Cyril Muir, a draper's floor superintendent, and his wife, Phyllis Coy. Her father was an Aberdonian, and Muir would attribute her creative pragmatism and self-discipline to this Scottish ancestry. [1]
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Elizabeth Hawes (December 16, 1903 – September 6, 1971) was an American clothing designer, outspoken critic of the fashion industry, and champion of ready to wear and people's right to have the clothes they desired, rather than the clothes dictated to be fashionable, an idea encapsulated in her book Fashion Is Spinach, published in 1938. [1]