biography
pronunciation:
[deeaw(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1905–57)
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| biography:
| Fashion designer, born in Granville, W France. He was the founder of the international fashion house of that name, and first began to design clothes in 1935. After working for Piguet and Lelong in Paris, he founded his own Paris house in 1945, and achieved worldwide fame with his long-skirted ‘New Look’ (1947). His later designs included the ‘H’ line and the ‘A’ line. |
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