Lucile (Lucy Duff-Gordon)
Couturier
British couturier who showed clothes on live models on stage and made light, dreamy dresses.
Lucy Duff-Gordon founded the house of Lucile in London in the 1890s and later opened in Paris, New York and Chicago.
She introduced fashion parades with mannequins and named gowns, and she survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.