Vera Maxwell Huppe (b. April 22, 1901, New York - d. January 15, 1995, Rincon, Puerto Rico) is a legendary designer sportswear and fashion, until his retirement in 1985.
She was the first American designer to make materials Ultrasuede. She won the Coty American Fashion Critics' Award in 1953, the Neiman Marcus Award in 1955 and was honored in 1970 with a retrospective exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
Born to Viennese parents, she traveled to Europe with them as a child and lived for a while in Vienna. He attended high school in Leonia, New Jersey and studied ballet in New York, becoming a member of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet from 1919 1924, when she married Raymond J. Maxwell. We divorced in 1937. He married Carlisle H. Johnson, an architect, in 1938 and divorced him in 1945.
Vera Maxwell became known as a designer in 1930 and became famous for its innovative designs. After years of designing for other manufacturers, she founded her own company, Vera Maxwell Originals, in 1947. Its heyday was in 1950. In 1960, his clothes are sold in 700 stores nationwide, but during that decade with its huge disruption reduced its classical style and she decided to lie fallow for a while. "
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Hermès silk
Hermès One of the most recognized is the silk scarf. The first Hermes silk scarf square in the collection was produced in 1928 and in 1937 with a tissue factory was established in Lyon. The modern Hermès scarf measures 90cm square, weighs 65 grams and is woven of 250 mulberry silk moth cocoons. The cost per pound of a handkerchief today is approximately $ 1965.00 (compared to a pound of steel at $ 0.19).
All Hermes scarves are hand-printed on silk multiple screens (43 is the highest number of screens used for a handkerchief to date, the charity handkerchief released in 2006, one for each color of the scarf) and hems are all sewn by hand. Bufanda two collections per year are released together with re-prints of the oldest designs and limited editions. Since 1937, Hermès has produced more than 2500 designs.
The Brides Of Gala scarf, first introduced in 1957, has sold more than 70000 times. A Hermes scarf sold somewhere in the world every 25 seconds, with the overall volume of sales peak at the end of 1980 to more than 1.1 million scarves. New scarves retail for $ 355 and still represent a significant percentage of Hermes' turnover. Hermes also markets two collections a year of cashmere and silk blend scarves, which are priced starting in the spring of 2008 of $ 550 to $ 950
All Hermes scarves are hand-printed on silk multiple screens (43 is the highest number of screens used for a handkerchief to date, the charity handkerchief released in 2006, one for each color of the scarf) and hems are all sewn by hand. Bufanda two collections per year are released together with re-prints of the oldest designs and limited editions. Since 1937, Hermès has produced more than 2500 designs.
The Brides Of Gala scarf, first introduced in 1957, has sold more than 70000 times. A Hermes scarf sold somewhere in the world every 25 seconds, with the overall volume of sales peak at the end of 1980 to more than 1.1 million scarves. New scarves retail for $ 355 and still represent a significant percentage of Hermes' turnover. Hermes also markets two collections a year of cashmere and silk blend scarves, which are priced starting in the spring of 2008 of $ 550 to $ 950
Bouffant
A bouffant is a type of hair combed characterized by high piled in the head and hanging on the sides. This is a haircut in the mainstream mid - to-late 17 century in Western Europe. In modern times, bouffant was popular in western culture in the 1960's, when it was created with the help of back-hair and large quantities of hair spray.
A bouffant cap (they look like the haircut) is a kind of lid that completely covers their hair for use in clean and other situations where it is important to avoid loose hairs. They are usually polypropylene or other nonwoven with a rubber band around the rim to keep it tight around his forehead and the back of his head beneath his hair. As can be used by either sex and above any haircut, bouffant caps are a popular option economic and workplaces covering his head. Cafeteria workers hairnets hospital scrubs and hats are two common examples of bouffant style caps.
A bouffant cap (they look like the haircut) is a kind of lid that completely covers their hair for use in clean and other situations where it is important to avoid loose hairs. They are usually polypropylene or other nonwoven with a rubber band around the rim to keep it tight around his forehead and the back of his head beneath his hair. As can be used by either sex and above any haircut, bouffant caps are a popular option economic and workplaces covering his head. Cafeteria workers hairnets hospital scrubs and hats are two common examples of bouffant style caps.
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