Ara

French fashion house opened in Paris in 1930 by the 28 year-old Armenian tailor Ara Frenkian, who had done long apprenticeships at Cyber and at Jenny. He withdrew from business during W.W. II and the Nazi occupation, and resumed his activity only after Liberation. Fifteen years later, he retired. In 1988 he published his autobiography, Ara, un artisan de la haute couture.