One of the pleasures of browsing old fashion magazines is discovering things and people that were well known to their contemporaries but somehow never make the cut into the standard histories. With that I give you the designer "Jenny", who we first encountered in an article from 1922 I quoted at length earlier this month. In it she is given equal space with her great contemporary Chanel, but unlike Chanel she has not become the subject of multitudinous biographies and exhibitions. However she did make the cover of Modes et Travaux in September 1933 with this deceptively simple dress in velvet.
According to The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers Jenny's
"...House opened in Paris in 1909 by Jeanne Adele Bernard (1872-1962). Specializing in elegant, aristocratic evening clothes and day dresses, throughout the 1920s Jenny successfully attracted a clientele of American and European women. The house merged with Lucile Paray in 1938 and closed in 1940."
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