| LC control no. | n 85275954 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Duff Gordon, Lucy, Lady |
| Variant(s) | Duff-Gordon, Lucy Christiana Sutherland, Lady Duff Gordon, Lucy, Lady, 1862-1935 Gordon, Lucy Duff, Lady Sutherland, Lucy, 1863-1935 Kennedy, Lucy, 1863-1935 Lucile, 1863-1935 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Lucile Ltd. |
| Other standard no. | Q255184 |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Birth date | 1863-06-13 |
| Death date | 1935-04-20 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Fashion design |
| Affiliation | Lucile Ltd. |
| Profession or occupation | Fashion designers |
| Found in | Etherington-Smith, M. The "it" girls, 1986: CIP title page (Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, the couturière "Lucile") LC manual auth cd. (hdg.: Duff-Gordon, Lucy Christiana (Sutherland) lady; usage: Lady Duff Gordon ("Lucile")) Costume design on Broadway, 1987: page 99 (Lucile, b. 1862, London, Eng.; d. 1935, London, Eng.; real name: Lucy Kennedy; known also professionally as Lady Duff Gordon; m. Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon; pioneering woman designer who created designs for actresses and dancers as well as the public; designed for Florenz Ziegfeld among others) Wikipedia, viewed May 26, 2020 (Lucy, Lady Duff-Cooper; Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon, née Sutherland; leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked under the professional name Lucile; born June 13, 1863 in London; after her father's death, her mother married David Kennedy in 1871; married James Stuart Wallace in 1884, who she later divorced; in 1900 she married Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, a Scottish baronet; in order to support herself and her daughter after the end of her first marriage she began working as a dressmaker from home; in 1893, she opened Maison Lucile; in 1903 the business was incorporated as Lucile Ltd; it was most famous for its lingerie, tea gowns, and evening wear; she is also widely credited with training the first professional fashion models (called mannequins) as well as staging the first runway or "catwalk" style shows, and she promoted her collections journalistically; with her husband, she survived the sinking of the Titanic; she was eventually bankrupted after she revealed in the American press that she was not designing much of the clothing that was attributed to her name; by September 1922, she had ceased designing for the company, which effectively closed; she died on April 20, 1935 in London) Unsinkable Lucile, 2022. Canadiana, October 18, 2021 (access point: Duff Gordon, Lucy, Lady, 1862-1935) |
| National bib agency no. | 0053E2784E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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