Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon drawings 1913-1923, 1913-1917

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Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon drawings 1913-1923, 1913-1917

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25 oversize boxes (255 items).

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Duff Gordon, Lucy, Lady

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Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon, was born Lucy Christiana Sutherland in London in 1863. She began a dressmaking business after her divorce from James Stuart Wallace. The business was successful and evolved into Maison Lucile, a couture house known for Lucile's ethereal and colorful designs, as well as for its celebrity clientele. In 1900 she married Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon. In addition to her couture house, she wrote fashion columns for the Hearst papers as well as fashion magazines. Some of the commissi...