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  • Restrictions on Access
  • Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
  • Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
  • Preferred Citation
  • Processing Information
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Biography
  • Scope and Content
  • Organization and Arrangement
  • General note

  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon drawings
    Creator: Duff Gordon, Lucy, Lady
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0624
    Physical Description: 255 items (25 oversize boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1913-1923
    Date (bulk): 1913-1917
    Physical Location: Held at UCLA Library Special Collections. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Restrictions on Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

    Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

    PORTIONS OF THIS COLLECTION HAVE BEEN DIGITIZED. See the Existence and Location of Copies note for the link to the digitized materials.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon Drawings (Collection Number 624). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Processing Information

    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
    Processed by Lorain Wang and Catherine Lee, March 2003. Additions processed by Lilace Hatayama, May 2003.
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    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9951651533606533 

    Biography

    Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon, was born Lucy Christiana Sutherland in London in 1863. She began a dressmaking business after her divorce from James Stuart Wallace. The business was successful and evolved into Maison Lucile, a couture house known for Lucile's ethereal and colorful designs, as well as for its celebrity clientele. In 1900 she married Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon. In addition to her couture house, she wrote fashion columns for the Hearst papers as well as fashion magazines. Some of the commissions she worked on around the time of these sketches were for the British premiere of the Franz Lehar operetta, The merry widow (1907), for Broadway's Ziegfeld follies revues (1915-1921), and for the Hollywood film, Way down East (1920). She died on April 20, 1935, at the age of 71, of breast cancer at a nursing home in London.

    Scope and Content

    Collection consists of fashion sketches by Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon. The color sketches are in pen or pencil with descriptions.

    Organization and Arrangement

    Sketches are arranged chronologically, 1913-1923, with the exception of some material added later, which date from 1916-1917 and appear at the end.

    General note

    Note: For identification purposes, please use the UCLA drawing number penciled on the verso in the lower left corner.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Costume design drawings
    Women fashion designers -- England -- Archives.
    Duff Gordon, Lucy, Lady--Archives.