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Daisy Fellowes 1890–1962
Daisy Fellowes took on the role of Paris editor for Harper's Bazaar in 1933. By that time, she had reportedly launched more fashions than any other woman in the world and was renowned as "the most elegant and most talked-about woman in Paris." Whatever she wore (or didn't wear) instantly established a new trend, and even haute couture designers followed her lead.
Born Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg -- but always known as Daisy -- the style icon was the daughter of a duke and an heir to the American Singer sewing machine fortune. Her fashion sense was daring and original, and she had a talent for making the most outrageous apparel appear effortlessly chic. She had a penchant for avant-garde design and frequently appeared in the surrealist fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli, who created the color "shocking pink" in her honor. Sargent's portrait conveys a sense of the subject's elegant allure.
Charcoal on paper, c. 1920
Private collection, Columbus, Georgia
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