Jacques Fath

[andyg0404]

Hi,

One of my recent wins on the auction site was a bound volume of Life Magazine from September/October 1949. I was leafing through it just now and came across an article on Jacques Fath. This is a description of who he was from Wikipedia.

Jacques Fath (born Maisons-Laffitte, France, 6 September 1912 – Paris, France, 13 November 1954) was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute couture, the others being Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain

Below is a picture from the article. I searched but could not find a better one nor any other pictures of him as a child but I thought everyone would enjoy this one.

Andy G.

[Robyn Jodie]

I looked at the Wikipedia article on Fath, and was interested that one of the photos was him and his wife with two Dutch children in skirts.  From the style of their clothes, I am guessing that this was on the island (now peninsula) of Marken, where up until at least the early 1960s boys wore skirts like the girls till six or older.  Not that they dressed exactly alike -- for example (I believe) vertical stripes on the top indicated a boy, flower motif a girl. Anyway, I'm guessing that at least one of the kids in the photo was a boy in spite of the girlish clothes.

[Lindsey]

I'm guessing that at least one of the kids in the photo was a boy in spite of the girlish clothes.

Further down on that Wiki page it mentions that he and his wife had a son Philippe born in 1943, which would have made him 6 or 7 at the time of the photo.