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Sonja de Lennart
German fashion designer (born 1920) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sonja de Lennart (born 21 May 1920) is a German fashion designer. In 1948, she invented capri pants.[1][2][disputed – discuss]
Early life
de Lennart was born in Prussia in 1920.[3] She grew up in Wrocław, and then studied textiles in Berlin.[4]
Fashion career
In 1945, after the war, Sonja de Lennart began to produce fashion wear and opened her first boutique, Salon Sonja, in Munich. In the beginning, she would cut a piece of paper to demonstrate the fit of clothing on her customers.[4]
Her design collection was named the Capri Collection[2] after the Island of Capri that was important to the designer.[5]
de Lennart first made Capri pants in the late 1940s and the actresses Mady Rahl and Erni Mangold wore them in 1949.[6] The Capri pant had a short slit on the outer-side of the pant leg, and they started to become popular in 1954 when Audrey Hepburn wore them in the movie A Heart and a Crown.[4]
In 1952, Edith Head used de Lennart's Capri Collection including a skirt, a high-neck blouse, and Capri pants for Audrey Hepburn in the movie, Roman Holiday.[7]
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