Oleg Cassini
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Oleg Cassini 1913-2006, American fashion designer, b. Paris as Oleg Cassini Loiewski. Raised in Italy, he came to the United States in 1936, and in the 1940s designed costumes for Twentieth-Century Fox and other Hollywood studios. After returning to New York, he created elegant ready-to-wear dresses, while continuing to design for television and Broadway musicals. In the 1960s he became the official designer to Jacqueline Kennedy, the wife of President Kennedy, creating the "Camelot" look that became synonymous with well-crafted style. He was known for such looks as the sheath, the A-line dress, and the pill-box hat and, for men, the turtleneck, brightly colored shirts, and the Nehru jacket. A pioneer in franchising, he lent his name to some 50 fashion-related lines.
Bibliography: See his autobiography, In My Own Fashion (1987).
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; ... his subsequent early departure, in his 1987 autobiography In My Own Fashion. He also recounted in the book how Kelly broke the news of her engagement to him on the Staten Island Ferry and how it seemed to come out of thin air. But apparently, Kelly held fast ...
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Oleg Cassini bailout plan falls through. (proposed financial plan for He-Ro Group Ltd)(Brief Article)
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