Born: Normandy, France, 1887 Died:Paris, France, 1936 Jean Patou opened a small fashion house named Parry at the outset of the First World War. His first major showing scheduled for
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Born: Alexandria, Egypt, 1904 Died: Athens, Greece, 1970 Born to Greek parents, Jean Dessès was educated in Egypt before moving to Paris to study law. Destined to enter the Diplomatic
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Born: Casablanca, Morocco, 1949 Jean-Charles de Castelbajac moved to France with his family during the fifties, where his mother opened her own clothing business. In 1968 he began designing for
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Born: Bourg-Argental, France, 1917 Died: Saint-Cloud, France, 1974 Jacques Esterel had no attraction to fashion at first, he instead presided over a factory that imported and exported machine tools. In
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Born: Hiroshima, Japan, 1938 Miyake was seven years old when he witnessed and survived the atomic bomb that killed 200,000 of Hiroshima’s public. Developing osteomyelitis three years later, a bone
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