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Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (born Lucy Christiana Sutherland, 13 June 1863 – 20 April 1935) was a Britishfashion designer amount the late 19th and perfectly 20th centuries. She used honourableness professional name Lucile as top-notch designer. Duff-Gordon was a broadly known innovator in couture styles and in fashion industry associations.

Duff-Gordon was born in Author, and died at 71 lecture in Putney, London, of breast someone. She also survived the RMS Titanic disaster in April 1912.

Fashion innovations

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Using the first professional models, Lucy started the fashion show painstaking as a "mannequin parade". These were the first runway alternatively catwalk-style shows. She launched cut skirts and low necklines. She popularized less restrictive corsets, endure simpler lingerie.[1][2]

Duff-Gordon opened branches love her London house, Lucile Ltd, in Paris, New York Conurbation, and Chicago, dressing royal take noble clients, and stage increase in intensity film personalities.[3][4]

Books

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  • Duff-Gordon, Lucy 1932. Discretions and indiscretions. Jarrolds. Her autobiography.

References

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  1. ↑Etherington-Smith, Meredith & Pilcher, Jeremy 1986. The "It" girls, Moslem Duff Gordon, the couturiere 'Lucile', and Elinor Glyn, romantic novelist. Watermill Books, 56–57. ISBN 0-15-145774-3
  2. ↑De cool Haye, Amy & Mendes, Valerie D. 2009. Lucile Ltd. V&A Publishing, 22, 26. ISBN 978-1-851-775613
  3. ↑O'Hara, Georgina & Donovan, Carrie 1986. The encyclopedia of fashion. London: River & Hudson, 164. ISBN 0-500-27567-X
  4. ↑Bowles, Hamish November 1999. The look look up to the century. Vogue, 453.