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Oleg
Cassini: French-born American fashion designer.
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Oleg
Cassini (April 11, 1913 – March 17, 2006) was an American
fashion designer noted for being chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to
design her state wardrobe in the 1960s. His clothing designs also
appeared in numerous Hollywood films starring his second wife,
the actress Gene Tierney.
Oleg
Cassini
Cassini
studied studied art under Giorgio de Chirico and eventually
gravitated to his mother's career, fashion, when he took a job
sketching for the French couturier Jean Patou. In the late 1930s,
he worked as an assistant to the costume designer Edith Head and
in the early 1940s was hired by Paramount Pictures.
Among
the films Cassini costumed was The Shanghai Gesture, a 1941 film
by Josef Von Sternberg, which starred Cassini's second wife, Gene
Tierney, who eventually would only wear Cassini designs onscreen.
As a result, Cassini costumes appeared in The Razor's Edge
(1946); The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947); That Wonderful Urge
(1948); Whrilpool (1949); Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), in
which Cassini appeared as a fashion designer; and The Mating
Season and On The Riviera (both 1951).
After
the war, Cassini designed ready-to-wear dresses while continuing
to design for television, motion pictures, and Broadway.
Kennedy
favored fashions by designer Oleg Cassini,
who
created this apricot silk ziberline dress she wore
in
India in 1962.
Cassini
shot to international stardom, however, in the early 1960s,
thanks to his association with Jacqueline Kennedy. "We are
on the threshold of a new American elegance thanks to Mrs.
Kennedy's beauty, naturalness, understatement, exposure and
symbolism," Cassini said when his selection as the couturier
to shape the entire look of the First Lady was announced.
The
fashion industry, however, was shocked at Cassini's selection by
the White House. As Women's Wear Daily journalist John Fairchild
wrote in his 1965 book The Fashionable Savages, "Everyone
was surprised. Oleg Cassini had been around for years. He was
debonair, amusing, social, but none of the fashion intellectuals
had considered him an important designer."
The
publicity that Cassini's work for Jacqueline Kennedy received led
women from 18 to 80 to copy the look of simple, geometric dresses
in sumptuous fabrics and pillbox hats with an elegant coiffure.
Meticulously tailored and featuring oversized buttons and boxy
jackets, as well as occasionally dramatic decolletage, it was a
style that was inspired by the work of Hubert de Givenchy.
Cassini designed a reported 300 outfits for the First Lady,
including a much-copied coat made of leopard pelts and a heavy
satin gown for the inaugural ball in 1961; the Cassini outfits
were paid for by her father-in-law, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
Cassini
in the 1974 AMC Matador showing some of the interior trim he
designed the name recognition that he gained during these years
led him to be the first designer to have licensing agreements,
with his name adorning everything from luggage to nail polish to
a trim package on the 1970s AMC Matador automobile. "All I
remember about those days are nerves, and Jackie on the phone
'Hurry, hurry, Oleg, I've got nothing to wear'," he wrote in
his 1995 book, A Thousand Days of Magic: Dressing Jacqueline
Kennedy for the White House.
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