It is funny that there is nothing about her on the net. It was a time before the internet and she already retired and her stupid sons will never tell the story but it is true and needs to be told. I know little of it and should have gotten more facts.
At the peak of her career, she was a head designer at Givenchy (I met Mr. Givency twice)
Royal families would send fabrics to her to make a dress for them. When I almost married an American, my aunt said that she would make her dress for free.
A dress made by her and designed by her in those days WAS ABOUT $250,000.00 JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA.
She was connected to the whose-who in the fashion business and when I went to visit her she took me around to meet the whose-who. I was around 14 or 15 at the time.
I met everybody and it was a lot of fun. I even met Mr. Gucci, when I was pretty astonished at the price of one of his belts. In those days $200.00 today perhaps $600.00 I remember making a remark that I should put my initials on my belt and open store across the street and sell it for 1/2 price. Mr. Gucci was not impressed. I still remember the face he made and the embarrassing look my aunt made Along with an "accordion" of apologies.
Anyway, I have lots of great stories about New York, shopping at Sax with my mom and her sister Edit Gati. Perhaps one day I will write them all down. It was a different life. I don't miss the snobbery at all.
This is how I like to remember them.
in the old days my mom modeled some of the Givenchy line for her sister I think. It was before I was born.
Edith and my mom