GALANOS James (Designer)

With this perfectly striped, wool dress, Galanos displays the reason why he was dubbed "America's couturier". "I never deviated from what was most important, which was quality", said Galanos, who actually produced the highest class of ready-to-wear. Nancy Reagan claimed, "You can take one of Jimmy's dresses and just wear it inside out, they are so beautifully made". The simplicity of his designs was deceptive and he used couture-standard dressmaking techniques, which made his pieces expensive. Galanos worked in Hollywood with John Louis, head of costume design at Columbia, who soon found his fledgling designer's clothes were as popular with the stars as his own. Having later trained with Robert Piguet in Paris, Galanos opened a small shop in Los Angeles in 1951. His designs were discovered by a senior buyer at Neiman Marcus, who claimed she had found "a young designer from California who would set the world on fire". 

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