Mainbocher, Inc.

Mainbocher is the only native American couturier to have achieved an equal footing with the Paris couturiers on their own ground and among his clients were some of the most important and fashionable women in the world. He was born in Chicago in 1891, worked as a couturier first in Paris from 1930 and then in New York from 1940 to 1971.

From the description of Mainbocher sketchbook collection, 1940-1970. (Metropolitan Museum of Art). WorldCat record id: 701466473