It seems incredible, but none of therecent commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic have ever highlighted the fact that, a hundred years ago, one of the major international fashion designers of the time was onboard the night the liner hit the iceberg.
The exhibit “Lucile: Fashion. Titanic. Scandal" is on at the Guelph Civic Museum in Guelph, Canada.
Tea Gown by Lucile, 1915. Label: Lucile Ltd., 37-39 W. 57th St., New York Designer: Lady Duff Gordon (Lucy Christiana Duff Gordon) Model: Photo: Lucile Ltd Studio, 160 Fifth Avenue/The Fashion Institute of Technology Library
The exhibit “Lucile: Fashion. Titanic. Scandal" is on at the Guelph Civic Museum in Guelph, Canada.
Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon is possibly more infamously known for the scandal surrounding her escape from the Titanic in an almost empty lifeboat with her secretary and her husband Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon.
The exhibit “Lucile: Fashion. Titanic. Scandal" is on at the Guelph Civic Museum in Guelph, Canada.
Evening Dress, 1912 Lucile (Lady Duff-Gordon) The Victoria & Albert Museum
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Evening dress, blue silk chiffon, lace and metallic embroidery.
The exhibit “Lucile: Fashion. Titanic. Scandal" is on at the Guelph Civic Museum in Guelph, Canada.
“I loosed upon a startled London, a London of flannel underclothes, woollen stockings and voluminous petticoats, a cascade of chiffons, of draperies as lovely as those of Ancient Greece and d…
Talbot Hughes (1869-1942) - Lily Elsie in The merry widow, 1908
Lucy Duff Gordon built an international couture business and revolutionised how clothes were marketed and sold
Here are two original 1920s Lucile designs by Lady Duff-Gordon. These images were generously given to me by Randy Bryan Bigham, who authored the first full-scale biography of Lucile. Please see my Lucile Page for more about Lady Duff-Gordon and her designs! ( Sketches through the Fashion Institute
The exhibit “Lucile: Fashion. Titanic. Scandal" is on at the Guelph Civic Museum in Guelph, Canada.
