Lola Prusac
Lola Prusac (born January 18, 1895 in Łódź , Poland , † October 29, 1985 in Paris ) was a Polish-French fashion designer in Paris.
Life
Prusac was employed in 1926 by Émile Maurice Hermès (1871-1951), the owner of the Hermès fashion house , to develop women's clothing, especially sports, swimwear and leisure wear. In 1930 she created the first silk scarves les carrés Hermès .
Prusac founded her own boutique in Paris in 1935 at house 93 on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and was active there until 1980.
She is known for her knitwear, silk scarves, partly interwoven with gold and silver threads, fantasy jewelry inspired by surrealism , handbags for the evening, very innovative hats and the two perfumes Sega and Gant de crin .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lola Prusac un chic excentrique, in: Magazine Jardin des Mode , Paris, September 1993, p. 18.
- ↑ Jean-R. Guerrand: souvenirs cousus sellier. Un demi-siècle chez Hermès, Paris: Editions Olivier Orban 1987, p. 58 (ISBN 9-782855-653778). It reads: "Polonaise d'origine, très influencée par l'art folklorique de son pays, elle avait un sens de l'harmonie des couleurs absolument extraordinaire. Ses pull-overs eurent un succès aussi grand qu'immédiat." (Hailing from Poland and heavily influenced by the folk art of her country, she had a sense of the harmony of extraordinary colors. Her sweaters were a huge and instant hit.)
- ^ Mary Brooks Picken and Dora Loues Miller: Dressmakers of France. The who, how, and why of the French couture. New York: Harper 1956, p. 132.
- ↑ Guillaume Garnier (ed.): Paris-couture-années trente, exh. Cat.Musée de la Mode et du Costume Paris, Paris 1987, p. 184.
- ↑ Les Métiers de l'art. Formation, tradition, restoration, creation, exhib. Cat.Musée des Arts décoratifs Paris, Paris 1980, p. 324.
- ↑ Alexandra Palmer: Couture & Commerce. The transatlantic fashion trade in the 1950s. Vancouver 2001, pp. 316ff. ( ISBN 978-0-7748-0826-2 ).
- ↑ L'Officiel de la couture , Paris, June 1967.
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SURNAME | Prusac, Lola |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-French fashion designer in Paris |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1895 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Łódź , Poland |
DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1985 |
Place of death | Paris |