#Lady Duff Gordon

[perfettamentechic]

20 aprile … ricordiamo …

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2022: Robert Morse, Robert Alan Morse, attore e cantante statunitense. E’ stato sposato due volte e ha avuto cinque figli. (n.1931) 2022: Hilda Bernard, Hilda Sarah Bernhardt, attrice argentina. È stata sposata due volte: con Horacio Zelada e con il regista Jorge Goncalvez. (n.1920) 2021: Tempest Storm, nata Annie Blanche Banks, è stata una ballerina e attrice statunitense di genere burlesque.…

[mote-historie]

Evening gown by Lucile aka Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Les Modes Paris, June 1914

[diioonysus]

lady duff-gordon (1863-1935) was a leading british fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked under the professional name lucile. the first british-based designer to achieve international acclaim, lucy duff-gordon was a widely acknowledged innovator in couture styles as well as in fashion industry public relations. in addition to originating the "mannequin parade,” a precursor to the modern fashion show, and training the first professional models, she launched slit skirts and low necklines, popularized less restrictive corsets, and promoted alluring and pared-down lingerie. she was also on the titanic and escaped with her life.

[history-of-fashion]

1916 Woman's "Happiness" dinner dress by Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon (Label Lucile Ltd., New York)

silk taffeta, satin, tulle, and chiffon with lace, lace insets and appliqué, ribbons, and silk flowers

(Philadelphia Museum of Art)

[jeannepompadour]

Lily Elsie (left) & Lady Diana Manners in the film "The Great Love", costumes by Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, 1918

[the1920sinpictures]

1923 Ziegfeld Girl Lucile Layton Zinman was interviewed by my Facebook friend Randy Bryan Bigham, author of "Lucile: Her Life by Design", and she told of encountering Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon at rehearsals for the Follies and noted how "everyone stood to attention" when she came backstage! From Randy Bryan Bigham, FB.

[venicepearl]

Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon (née Sutherland; 13 June 1863 – 20 April 1935) was a leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked under the professional name Lucile.

[morbidology]

Dubbed the “Millionaire’s Boat," lifeboat number 1 was the fourth lifeboat to leave the Titanic as it sank. It carried only 12 people, despite the fact that it had the capacity for 65. On board, were five first-class passengers, including Sir Cosmo and Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, as well as seven crew members. Sir Cosmo bribed the crew members to take just the five of them, ignoring the pleas of other passengers.

[thebeautifulbook]

THE AMBER WITCH: A ROMANCE by Wilhelm Meinhold. (London: Nutt, 1895) Translated by Lady Duff Gordon. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Jacobs. Illustrated by Philip Burne-Jones.

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[perfettamentechic]

20 aprile … ricordiamo …

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2022: Robert Morse, Robert Alan Morse, attore e cantante statunitense. Morse è molto noto per le sue apparizioni teatrali in musical e spettacoli di Broadway. Il suo ruolo più conosciuto è quello del giovane imprenditore J. Pierre-Point Finch nella commedia teatrale How to Succeed in Business Without Really Try, in scena a Broadway dal 1961 al 1965, e nell’omonima riduzione cinematografica, Come…

[mote-historie]

Evening gown by Lucile aka Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Les Modes Paris, 1914

[gentlyepigrams]

Models Phyllis and Gamela with Lady Duff-Gordon, Lucile, in her London atelier.

[history-of-fashion]

1916-1917 Woman's dress 'Happiness' by Madame Lucile (Lady Duff Gordon)

silk plain weave, silk tulle, and silk satin with silk plain weave and silk net lace appliqués, and silk and metallic-thread embroidery

(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Wednesday 5.. February 1840

8 ½

..

monsieur came in the night?  chemise much soiled at noon on Thursday – Refreshed after having slept perhaps 1 ½ hour – finished the little bit of packing that remained to be done – breakfast over at 11 ½ and at 11 ½ sent Gross to Mr. Marc’s with note enclosing five £25 circulars nos. 8592, 3, 4, 5, 6 to be cashed and A-‘s letter to her sister and my own letters to “Miss Marian Lister North Cave Yorkshire Angleterre” “Robert Parker Esquire Solicitor, Halifax, Yorkshire England” – “Messrs. R. and H. Hunt, Hamburg” and packet to “John Hodgson Esquire English Quay, St. Petersburg” (containing civil note to Mr. Hodgson himself thanks for his attention etc. and asking him to forward thro’ Mr. Buchanan by the bag my 2 half sheet-notes to the “Honourable Lady Stuart” and to “Lady Stuart de Rothesay” both undercover to Lord Stuart de Rothesay 3 Carlton house terrace London) and packet to “Messrs. Hammersley and co. Bankers London” containing a thin ½ sheet close and small written note in envelope to “Lady Duff Gordon 34 Hertford street” from 11 ½ to 6 at accounts and settling with George the courier Grotza who leaves us on our setting off on our journey, and Gross – paid the latter his ¼ years wages due on the 16th instant and 30 days board in advance £1 for every 6 days i.e. 24 Roubles for every 6 days = 21 x 5 = 105 R. per 30 days – Had Mrs. Howard sundry times on one account or other – I had ordered the Kibitkas’ to be packed immediately on Gross’s return from Mr. Marcs’, but somehow this was not understood and it was 4 p.m. when Gross came to ask if they were to be packed – and it being a 3 or 4 hours job made us off so late – Mr. Marcs’ cashier brought the money I having omitted to indorse the circulars – asked for tea about 6 – wrote and left with Mrs. Howard the following character of Grotza – Mrs. Lister will be obliged to Mrs. Howard to inform anyone who may apply for the character of Elizabeth Catherine Gross that she has lived in Mrs. Listers’ service as Ladys’ maid from the 10th of May 1839 to the 5th of February 1840, and that Mrs. Lister has found her strictly honest, well-conducted and trustworthy, clean and neat in her person and about her work and a good hairdresser, and getter up of fine linen – Mrs. Lister has had no occasion of trying her in dress-making, but she had a good character for ability in this respect from the lady with whom she lived last – Wednesday 5 February 1840. (I am not certain whether the paper was dated or not) –

we had had tea and waited some time for all [?] announced ready when the summons came at 7 25/.. – but our kibitka so uncomfortable the little alteration that could be made took till 7 ¾ vid. p. 7

SH:7/ML/E/24/0006

(vid. p. 7) still the seat too high – our kibitka uncomfortably pace – no help for it till morning – never dreampt of being off so late – in the dark – now at 7 ¾ as we drive off from Mrs. Howards’ in the Great Dimitri Street Moscow – A- and I and our government post courier in our covered kibitka (3 horses) followed by our Russian servants George and his wife, and our German Gross in an ordinary ½ mat-covered kibitka also with 3 horses – uncomfortable

Leave Moscow fine day

[the1920sinpictures]

1914 Designer Lucile (Lady Duff Gordon) on right, with her daughter Esme, Viscountess Tiverton (left), granddaughter Flavia Gifford, age four, her mother Elinor Kennedy (back left), and grandson Anthony Giffard (back right). From Randy Bryan Bigham, FB.

[marzipanandminutiae]

(Very popular with the royals) 😂

Yes, exactly!

(although it's worth noting that Lady Duff-Gordon's name was never actually Lucile, but Lucy, and I imagine a woman as socially conscious Rose would have known that)