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Reach us and reign over Us”

In. Shakespeare

Valentina Sanina – Shlee in 1930 was a popular fashion designer in America. In Russia, almost nothing was known about her. Valentina dressed the highest light, the famous Hollywood actresses such as Gloria Swenson, Catherine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert. Sanina-Shlee always looked flawless. She was beautiful, dressed elegantly, fashionably and tastefully.

With his future husband, George Schlee, Valentina Sanina met in Sevastopol, during the Civil War. They fled to Italy together and then moved to Paris. In 1921 they married, and in 1923 the couple moved to America, New York, where George became George, successfully made a career, working as a successful theatrical impresario. Valentina sewed her chic outfits and went out in them. In 1928, in Manhattan, she opened her fashion House – “Valentine’s Dresses”. And very soon she dressed all the upper light of Hollywood.

The main difference of her fashion House was that she chose style for her clients. The stars had to To accept, especially as the collection of image and style, Valentina was fine. She believed that the main thing-a combination of luxury and comfort. For example, no high studs. The client doesn’t agree, she was politely pointed to the door. Dresses with Chinese belts, turbans, veils, trousers, skirts, wide-brimmed hats and coats, dresses with hoods-all this in fashion introduced Valentina Sanina-Shlee. Since 1940 Valentina is a very famous and expensive fashion designer. However, because of the rigid nature of friends she had not a lot of actress Greta Garbo and artist Dmitry Bushena.