1. Mainbocher “ I am the Rolls-Royce of the fashion trade” Joey LiMandri

2. Early Life 1890 - born Main Rousseau Bocher, Chicago 1907 - Lewis Institute &Chicago Academy of Fine Arts 1909 - New York, studied at the Art Students’ League 1911 - attended University of Chicago 1911 - death of father led to Sears Complaints Dept. 1911 - Königliche Kunstgewerbe-museum in Munich 1913 – studied painting with E.A. Taylor, Paris 1914 - New York sketch artist for clothing manufacturer E.L. Mayer.

3. Parisian Life 1917-1939 1917 - WWI service. 1918 - war ended, Harper’s Bazaar illustrator 1922 - fashion correspondent & editor French Vogue 1929 - self-taught dressmaker 1930 - opened couture house 1939 – left Paris

4. Dutchess of Windsor 1937

5. Designed For WAVES 1942

6. Designed for Girl Scouts Mainbocher (1946) Mod ern

7. Designed for American Red Cross 1948

8. American Life 1939 - opened couture house, New York 1940s – introduces “glamour belts” 1950 - opened La Galerie 1960s - designs considered old-fashioned 1971 - retired

9. Inspiration Augustabe rnard - godets in skirts - shoulder bows Madeleine Vionnet - bias cut

10. Mainbocher’s Pieces

11. Mainbocher dies 1976