Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon and some of her naughty nighties. Catherine the Great.. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon was a leading Fashion Designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was best known by her professional name “Lucile”. She was the first English designer to achieve international fame and she was widely acknowledged as an innovator in couture styles, as well as in the public relations side of the fashion industry. Lucile was the first to bring about and organize “mannequin parades” – a precursor to the modern-day fashion show – and was also the first to train professional models. Her designs were also revolutionary. She launched liberating slit skirts and low necklines as well as popularizing less-restrictive corsets and alluring lingerie. Lucile loved and appreciated the female form and understood how to drape fabric to create gorgeously feminine silhouettes, freeing women of restrictive corsets and underskirts. Her designs were revolutionary and scandalous. For Lady Duff Gordon, her night gowns and lingerie reflected female intimacy and allowed a “glimpse into a woman’s soul.” The Queen of Spain famously owned some of Lady Duff Gordon’s most beautifully created pieces, the Duchess of Warwick requested black silk negligee’s to match her boudoir drapes and an exclusive ‘Lucile Trousseau’ was designed for Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, Princess Margaret ‘Daisy’ of Connaught. She died of breast cancer, complicated by pneumonia, in 1935 at the age of 71. The date of her death, 20 April, was the fourth anniversary of her husband’s death.
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