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Sonja de Lennart

Sonja de Lennart
Born (1920-05-21) 21 May 1920 (age 104)
Prussia
OccupationFashion designer
Years active1945–present
Known forInventing capri pants[disputed – discuss]

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

Mady Rahl modeling capri pants

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 piece of paper to demonstrate the fit of clothing on her customers.[4]

Her design collection was named the Capri Collection[5] after the Island of Capri that was important to the designer.[6]

de Lennart first made Capri pants in the late 1940s and the actresses Mady Rahl and Erni Mangold wore them in 1949.[7] 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.[8]

References

  1. ^ "18. Juli 2003 / sw Abbildung: The Fifties (Fashionsourcebooks), Paperback Verlag". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
  2. ^ - Capri Pants: A Timeless Fashion Trend Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine (Fashion Style You, retrieved 08 August 2008)
  3. ^ "MoMA: Art and artists". Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
  4. ^ a b c Reitter-Welter, Barbara (28 June 2015). "Fur Klosterschulerinnen verboten". Welt am Sonntag; Berlin – via Proquest.
  5. ^ Hendricks, Nancy (17 August 2018). Popular Fads and Crazes through American History: [2 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. 274–276. ISBN 978-1-4408-5183-4.
  6. ^ Antonelli, Paola (2017). ITEMS : is fashion modern?. Internet Archive. New York, New York : Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-1-63345-036-3.
  7. ^ Gallardo, Carmen (7 April 2012). "CAPRI, CE N'EST PAS FINI". El Mundo ; Madrid. p. 15 – via Proquest.
  8. ^ Muñoz, Elena (2 September 2023). "The history of capri pants, the design that encouraged women around the world to forget skirts and dresses". EL PAÍS English. Retrieved 18 October 2024.