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Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity
Valentina Sanina Schlee (1899-1989) – known professionally simply as Valentina — was a fashion pioneer, clothing such luminaries as Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Cornell, and Mrs. Randolph Hearst and helping to invent American couture in the process.
Hers was the quintessential New York success story: she arrived in the city as a young immigrant and reinvented herself as the epitome of style and glamour, becoming a fixture in the fashion pages and a major celebrity in her own right.
At Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
Thru May 17
www.mcny.org
