Oleg Cassini

Cassini studied art under Giorgio de Chirico and eventually gravitated to the career of her mother, fashion, when he took a job to draw the French couturier Jean Patou. In late 1930, he worked as an assistant to the costume designer Edith Head, and in early 1940 he was hired by Paramount Pictures.
Among the films Cassini was clothing Shanghai Gesture, a film of 1941 by Josef Von Sternberg, star of the Cassini second wife, Gene Tierney, which eventually only wear Cassini designs on the screen. As a result, Cassini suits appeared in The Razor's Edge (1946), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947); To Urge Wonderful (1948); Whrilpool (1949); Where the road is cut (1950), the Cassini which appeared as a fashion designer, and the mating season and the French Riviera (both 1951).
After the war, Cassini designed ready-to-wear clothes, while continuing to design for television, film and Broadway.
Cassini shot international stardom, however, in the early 1960's, thanks to its partnership with Jacqueline Kennedy. "We are on the threshold of a new American elegance thanks to Mrs. Kennedy beauty, naturalness, understatement, exposure and symbolism," Cassini said when his selection as the couturier to shape the whole aspect of the First Lady was announced.
The fashion industry, however, was shocked to Cassini selection by the White House. As Women's Wear Daily journalist John Fairchild wrote in his 1965 book fashion Savages, "Everybody was surprised. Oleg Cassini had for years. Was elegant, fun, social, but none of the fashion intellectuals had considered him an important designer. "
The Cassini publicity for the work of Jacqueline Kennedy led the women received between 18 and 80 to copy the look of simple, geometric dresses in sumptuous fabrics and pillbox hats with an elegant coiffure. Meticulosamente adapted and buttons over dimensioned and boxy jackets, and sometimes dramatic neckline, it is a style that was inspired by the work of Hubert de Givenchy. Cassini designed a reported 300 1961, the Cassini suits were paid by his stepfather, Joseph P. Kennedy.