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In the 1950s ,Prada Hobo at the height of post-war chic, when the editors of Vogue and Harper 's Bazaar and Glamour readers were aware of Ireland at all, it was for a reason, the remarkable Sybil Connolly .
Self-made , self-invented and brilliantly talented , the girl was born in Wales to a seller's market father's insurance Waterford and a Welsh mother a fashion designer based in Dublin and has the Irish fashion industry in the 50s and 60s.
In many ways, Sybil Connolly Coco Chanel was Ireland .
Connolly dressed the world's most glamorous women , from Jackie Kennedy and the heir to the Rockefeller, Mellon and Dupont family of movie stars like Merle Oberon, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor .
It has all the leaves and Irish tweed inspired covers of religious ( for which she also designed , cleans three different levels ) and made red flannel petticoats seen in traditional western Ireland .
A striking , dark " Irish Colleen " self Connolly lived in a nice house in Merrion Square in Dublin, led a series of hand built , Bristol sports car and spent much of his year of hosting its own fashion events in the United States, Europe and Australia .
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She was of the Sisters of Mercy was raised in Waterford and learning in a fashion house in London at the age of 17 , but returned to Dublin at the beginning of World War II to work in a dress makers on Grafton Street.
In an interview with the kind of focus cup - glass the young Queen Elizabeth II would spread the feeling it only works with Irish fabrics and refused with a steadfast determination to compromise his principles or follow trends.
His clothes were romantic and came Blarney infused with stories of inspiration found the foggy morning in the fishermens cabins of Connemara . But she was also a brilliant businesswoman trail - blazing which network its way to the forefront of the American fashion industry and gave large stock phrases.
" No woman can really elegant to about 40 ," she said once told an American fashion editor, without doubt , one eye on the ego of its typical customer .
And if they voluntarily ( some say that they never really think about the mini skirt ) from the world of fashion in the 1970s retired, Connolly did with characteristic elegance.
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