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Sonja de Lennart (born 21 May 1920) is a German fashion designer. In 1948, she invented capri pants.[1][2][disputed – discuss]
Sonja de Lennart | |
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| Born | 21 May 1920 |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Years active | 1945–present |
| Known for | Inventing capri pants[disputed – discuss] |
Fashion career
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In 1945, after the war, Sonja de Lennart began to produce fashion wear and opened her first boutique, Salon Sonja, in Munich.[citation needed] Her fashion career began when the fashion advisor of the Taylor's Guild, M. Ponater, allowed de Lennart to exhibit one of her first creations (a hand painted dress which she painted herself and displayed on a mannequin) in one corner of Ponater’s booth of the leading[3] Fashion Trade Fair, Handwerksmesse,[citation needed] where he was displaying and selling his own fashion collection. This one and only opportunity[tone] to show her talent had customers standing in line to place orders for which she wasn’t prepared.[citation needed] This event turned into the beginning of the distribution of de Lennart’s creations.[citation needed] The demand for her designs was so overwhelming[according to whom?] that soon after, the family began to manufacture another of her creations, imitation leather vestures, as well as three-quarter length coats that were exhibited at the Craftsman Fair and distributed nationwide becoming a bestseller.[citation needed]
In that same year, she created a wide-swinging skirt with a wide belt (which she modeled herself),[4] a blouse, and hat. Her design collection was named the Capri Collection[5] after the Island of Capri that was important to the designer.[6] In 1948, after years of women wearing the typical wide and rather masculine pants, de Lennart created the Capri pant with a short slit on the outer-side of the pant leg.[7]
References
edit- ^ "18. Juli 2003 / sw Abbildung: The Fifties (Fashionsourcebooks), Paperback Verlag". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
- ^ - Capri Pants: A Timeless Fashion Trend Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine (Fashion Style You, retrieved 08 August 2008)
- ^ Fashion Trade Fair (The Internationale Handwerksmesse is the Leading Trade Fair for the Craft Trades, retrieved on 08 August 2008)
- ^ Sonja de Lennart Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine(Wide swinging skirt and belt modeled by Sonja de Lennart)
- ^ "Original Capri Collection (Photos of the original Capri Collection)". Archived from the original on 27 August 2008.
- ^ Antonelli, Paola (2017). ITEMS : is fashion modern?. Internet Archive. New York, New York : Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-1-63345-036-3.
- ^ Reitter-Welter, Barbara (28 June 2015). "Fur Klosterschulerinnen verboten". Welt am Sonntag; Berlin – via Proquest.