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Born July 16, 1921 • La Rochelle • France
Died February 17, 1989 (aged 67) • Paris • France
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin
French designer
Halston with friends at Studio 54
Halston
American designer
Erté: evening gown
Erté
Russian designer
Marcel Boussac
French industrialist
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Tom Ford
Tom Ford
American fashion designer
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
Italian fashion designer
Luciano Benetton
Italian manufacturer
Amelia Bloomer
Amelia Bloomer
American social reformer
Beaton, Sir Cecil
Sir Cecil Beaton
British photographer and costume and production designer
Sonia Delaunay
Russian artist
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Christian Lacroix
French fashion designer
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Charlotte Perriand: 1928 dining room
Charlotte Perriand
French designer
Gabrielle (
Coco Chanel
French designer
Fernand Léger, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1941.
Fernand Léger
French painter
Philippe Starck: Costes chair
Philippe Starck
French designer