Madame Suzy

Madame Suzy was the business name of a very well known Parisian milliner .

At the age of 15 she began training as a milliner in Suzanne Talbot's salon , a few years later she moved to Maria Guy on Place Vendome . By the 1910s at the latest, she had her own salon at 5 rue de la Paix , where she soon won numerous prominent customers, including Marina, Duchess of Kent , when she was shopping for her bridal equipment in Paris in 1934. Another prominent customer was Wallis Simpson , Duchess of Windsor, American fashion icon and wife of the former British King Edward VIII , who bought 10 hats from Madame Suzy during her stay in Paris in 1937.

In the late 1930s and 1940s, Madame Suzy's exotic and colorful creations set the style for Parisian women's hat fashion and appeared on the cover of British Vogue in May 1938 . During the war and the occupation of France, she emigrated to the USA, but returned to Paris in 1944. In the first few years after the war, she continued to design fashion, especially for the American market.

In the 1940s, several perfumes were launched under her name , starting with Ecarlate de Suzy (in the USA under the name Scarlet de Suzy ) in a bottle with a stopper in the shape of a lady's hat, followed by madrigal , bandbox and golden laughter . In the 1950s, Madame Suzy closed her shop.

A hat label Suzy of California and Suzi of California , respectively, distributed in the USA in the 1940s and 1950s is presumably unrelated to Madame Suzy.

literature

NJ Stevenson: The History of Fashion. Styles, trends and stars. Haupt, Bern et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-258-60032-1 , pp. 136f.

Web links

Hats from Madame Suzy in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
Madame Suzy hats in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum , London
Madame Suzy hats in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Individual evidence

^ "Madame Suzy" - Magician of Millinery , article by Mary St. Claire in The Australian Women's Weekly , Oct. 5, 1935, p. 10. See also the short article and photograph by Madame Suzy on p. 9.
↑ US to get first Glimpse of Duchess' Fall Wardrobe , Daytona Beach Morning Journal article , October 13, 1937, p. 8.
↑ Chapeaux! Madame Suzy here from Paris , article in The Pittsburgh Press , October 15, 1945
^ Ecarlate de Suzy, 1940 , FIDM Museum, Los Angeles
↑ Brenda Grantland, Mary Robak: Hatatorium: An Essential Guide for Hat Collectors. Mill Valley, CA 2011, p. 171

personal data
SURNAME	Suzy, madame
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French milliner
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1900
DATE OF DEATH	after 1950

[1] "Madame Suzy" - Magician of Millinery , article by Mary St. Claire in The Australian Women's Weekly , Oct. 5, 1935, p. 10. See also the short article and photograph by Madame Suzy on p. 9.

[2] US to get first Glimpse of Duchess' Fall Wardrobe , Daytona Beach Morning Journal article , October 13, 1937, p. 8.

[3] Chapeaux! Madame Suzy here from Paris , article in The Pittsburgh Press , October 15, 1945

[4] Ecarlate de Suzy, 1940 , FIDM Museum, Los Angeles

[5] Brenda Grantland, Mary Robak: Hatatorium: An Essential Guide for Hat Collectors. Mill Valley, CA 2011, p. 171