Lucy Christiana - The Woman Who…Conquered the Catwalk..by Fenwick
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These days hundreds of fashion brands compete for our attention…and our business, but in the early 1900s there was one name in women’s fashion that had truly global appeal. The label was Lucile, and the woman behind this burgeoning couture empire was Lucy Christiana.
In the first instalment of this series we discover how a penniless single mother rose to become the foremost fashion designer of her day, how she dreamed up the pre-cursor to the modern fashion show and how a fateful trip aboard The Titanic almost cut her career short.
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