Sandra’s Deblog from Debutante Clothing is one of my fave blog reads. She always has something unique and different on the blog — particularly those who are interested in serious fashion and not just trends. Really that is the point of fashion– not the trend stuff of every season but a creation of style and wearability that shows off the personality (or creaes one) of the person wearing the clothes.
Sandra recently was writing about a designer– not just any designer, but Russian emigre, Valentina about a book — and a video– she had discovered.
“Fit the century, forget the year.”
The book about her life is available on amazon.com
When it comes to fashion design, not fashion as it relates to the masses, fashion magazines and media seem to push the familiar, the collections with mass appeal. This is a business after all. But Valentina did not buy into trends and fads. Her designs and cutting edge work led to her being regarded as a pioneer in American couture.
A Russian immigrant, her life was a true American dream story. Valentina went from an unknown, to a celebrity fashion designer due to her fashion forward designs. Her clients included Greta Garbo and Mrs. Hearst. She reminds me of another immigrant, fashion forward designer plucked from relative obscurity until she was worn by one of the most famous women in the world – Isabel Toledo.
Thanks to Sandra for alerting me — and everyone else to the Valentina video on style.com featuring the author of the book by the same title, Kohle Yohannan
Valentina’s work will be on display in an exhibit at the Museum of the City in New York titled, Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity, February 14 through May 17.
Definitely check out the rest of Sandra’s post because there is the video
Stevie Wilson
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