#lucile

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Dress

c. 1912

Silk crêpe, silk, machine-made lace, lined, boned

by Lucile

Victoria and Albert Museum

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• Wedding Dress.

Date: 1916

Designer/Maker: Lucile (Chicago)

Medium: Silk satin, lace, silk flowers.

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The lighthouse

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"Happiness" dinner dress designed by Lucile, in the eighteenth-century style, made of silk taffeta, satin, tulle and chiffon, with lace, lace insets and appliqué, ribbons, and silk flowers, 1916.

Described by the press as "the first English lady of title...to dress the Four Hundred," the English couturiere Lady Duff Gordon, known as Lucile, opened a New York branch of her famous London dressmaking business in 1910, expanding to Paris in 1912 and Chicago in 1915. Lucile aimed to make an art of beautiful dressing, and her "Dream Dresses" were fairy-tale creations of shimmering silks, gossamer laces, and delicate rainbows of ribbon. Influenced by her early designs for Lingerie and tea gowns, Lucile's dresses, which she also referred to as "Gowns of Emotion," were given suitable romantic names. This pale aqua dinner dress, entitled "Happiness," is from her Fall 1916 New York collection and represents the quintessential Lucile creation. It was designed in the eighteenth-century style she often favored, with its hooped skirt drawn back to reveal a delicate silk, lace, and ribbon petticoat.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Les Modes, 1917

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Fashion designer Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, who worked under the professional name Lucile, was born on this day [Jun 13] in 1863. She designed this "Happiness" silk taffeta and tulle dress with lace, appliqué, ribbons, and silk flowers in Autumn 1916. Kyoto Costume Institute.

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

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L'Art et la mode, no. 43, vol. 44, 27 octobre 1923, Paris. Les plus jolis mannequins de Paris. Miss Gertie de chez Lucile. Photo Rahma. Bibliothèque nationale de France