biography
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Mainbocher
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originally Main Rousseau Bocher
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pronunciation:
[maynboshay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1890–1976)
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| biography:
| Fashion designer, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied and worked in Chicago, and after service in World War 1 stayed on in Paris, eventually becoming a fashion artist with Harper's Bazaar and editor of French Vogue. He started his couture house in Paris in 1930. One of his creations was the wedding dress designed for Mrs Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor (1937). He opened a salon for ready-to-wear clothes in New York City in 1940, but returned to Europe in 1971. |
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