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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
California, USA. The section dedicated to textile and clothing numbers more than 50,000 pieces, ranging from fragments of medieval fabrics to creations by contemporary Japanese designers. Within the museum, the Doris Stein Research Center collects materials concerning fashion, books, sketches,…
Lognon
Gérard. A master of plissé. Under Napoleon III, his great-grandmother Emilie was a lingerie embroiderer and a specialist in ironing pleated shirtfronts. His grandfather George opened a shop which used cardboard molds to pleat fabrics. Among his customers were Maison…
Lumberjack
Shoe brand distributed by La 3A Antonini, a company established in Verona in 1945 as an craft activity by Ivo Antonini and his cousins Alvaro and Ezio. In the mid-1950s, 3A Antonini was already an avant-garde industrial company in the…
London Institute
The London Institute represents a group of six London art colleges. Among their most famous students there are: Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen.
Land’s End
International leader in mail-order selling, thanks to an excellent quality/price ratio. In 2001 turnover totalled 1.6 billion dollars, 20% of which arrived via Internet sales, a channel the company took up in 1995. The company distributes 269 million catalogues annually.…
Lipperheidescher Kostumbibliothek
German library that specializes in fashion. Set up in 1877 by Franz von Lipperheide, editor of the magazine Die Modewelt, it has a collection of 32,000 books, magazines, lithographies, photographs, and original sketches.
Lubin
French brand of perfumes created by Pierre-Franµois Lubin in 1798. This was the year that the famous fragrance Eau de Lubin was created. After rapidly becoming supplier to the French, Russian and English courts, the maison’s founder was the first…
Linificio e Canapaficio Castellini
This company was founded in 1850 in Paderno Dugnano, near Milan. It manufactured jute bags for the Italian Postal Service and the cloths used to cover deckchairs on the beach, including that of the Hotel Excelsior in Venice. Later, with…
Lellasport
A store in the heart of Milan and, later, a factory that made female sportswear. This brand has been worn by Milanese women for more than 30 years. It was established in the mid-1950s by Domenico Lella, a ski champion,…
Lola Millinery
American brand of women’s hats. Its name derives from Lola, a traditional milliner. Born in Holland in 1947, she grew up in Paris but moved to New York in 1974. She creates real compositions for her customers, mini works of…
