It is funny that there is nothing about her on the net.  It was a time before the internet and she already retired and her stupid sons will never tell the story but it is true and needs to be told.  I know little of it and should have gotten more facts.

At the peak of her career, she was a head designer at Givenchy (I met Mr. Givency twice)

Royal families would send fabrics to her to make  a dress for them.  When I almost married an American, my aunt  said that she would make her dress for free.

A dress made by her and designed by her in those days WAS ABOUT $250,000.00  JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. 

She was connected to the whose-who in the fashion business and when I went to visit her she took me around to meet the whose-who.  I was around 14 or 15 at the time. 

I met everybody and it was a lot of fun.  I even met Mr. Gucci, when I was pretty astonished at the price of one of his belts. In those days $200.00 today perhaps $600.00  I remember making a remark that I should  put my initials on my belt and open store across the street and sell it for 1/2 price.  Mr. Gucci was not impressed.  I still remember the face he made and the embarrassing look my aunt made Along with an "accordion" of apologies.

Anyway, I have lots of great stories about New York, shopping at Sax with my mom and her sister Edit Gati. Perhaps one day I will write them all down. It was a different life.  I don't miss the snobbery at all.

This is how I like to remember them.

in the old days  my mom modeled some of the Givenchy line for her sister I think.  It was before I was born.

Edith and my mom