Sonja de Lennart
Sonja de Lennart | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 May 1920 |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Years active | 1945–present |
| Known for | Inventing capri pants |
Sonja de Lennart (born 21 May 1920) is a German fashion designer. In 1948, she invented capri pants.[1][2]
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
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 a piece of paper to demonstrate the fit of clothing on her customers.[4]
Her design collection was named the Capri Collection[2] after the Island of Capri that was important to the designer.[5]
de Lennart first made Capri pants in the late 1940s and the actresses Mady Rahl and Erni Mangold wore them in 1949.[6] 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.[7]
References
- ^ "18. Juli 2003 / sw Abbildung: The Fifties (Fashionsourcebooks), Paperback Verlag". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "MoMA: Art and artists". Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
- ^ a b c Reitter-Welter, Barbara (28 June 2015). "Fur Klosterschulerinnen verboten". Welt am Sonntag; Berlin. ProQuest 1870905144.
- ^ Antonelli, Paola (2017). Items : is fashion modern?. Internet Archive. New York, New York : Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-1-63345-036-3.
- ^ Gallardo, Carmen (7 April 2012). "Capri, Ce N'est Pas Fini". El Mundo; Madrid. p. 15.
- ^ Muñoz, Elena (2 September 2023). "The history of capri pants, the design that encouraged women around the world to forget skirts and dresses". El Pais English. Retrieved 18 October 2024.