In 2009, Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity, a large retrospective exhibition opened at the Museum of the City of New York. Since she and Garbo lived in the same apartment building in New York City-and Valentina was upset by Garbo's close friendship with her husband George in the early 60's right before he died-Valentina and Garbo had an elaborate schedule set up so that they would never run into each other in the lobby of their building. She died of Parkinson's disease in 1989, aged 90. Schlee closed her fashion house in the late 1950s. Schlee was always impeccably turned out, earning her a mention on the International Best Dressed List. She modeled her own designs and rarely let her dramatic, elegant air of self-possession falter. "Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936.
"Simplicity survives the changes of fashion," she said in the late 1940s.
Schlee's made-to-measure, flowing styles combined the intricate bias cut of Madeleine Vionnet and the grace of gowns by Alix Gres. In 1950 Valentina also introduced a perfume, "My Own". She also dressed prominent New York society women including members of the Whitney and Vanderbilt families. Her Broadway successes included the costumes for the play The Philadelphia Story. Schlee dressed such actresses of the era as Lynn Fontanne, Katharine Cornell, Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Gertrude Lawrence, and Katharine Hepburn. The costumes were better received than the play, and established her reputation as a designer for the stage. Her first stage commission was costumes for Judith Anderson in 1933's Come of Age. Schlee opened a small couture dress house, Valentina's Gowns on Madison Avenue in 1928.
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Valentina "stood out" for her clothes and style at the time because she appeared in floor-lengths and cover-ups while other women wore short skirts and low-neck dresses." Professional career The Schlees arrived in New York City in 1923 and became prominent members of café society during the Roaring Twenties. George Schlee is best known for his 20-year friendship with film star Greta Garbo. She met her Russian financier husband, George Schlee (died 1964 ), at the Sevastopol railway station as she was fleeing the country with her family jewels there is some question as to whether they were legally wed. She was studying drama in Kharkiv at the outbreak of the October Revolution in 1917.
Her Body Measurements are 34-28-42 Inches, Valentina waist size 28 inches, and hip size 42 inches.
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