Mainbocher—The Most Important American Designer You’ve Never Heard Of—Is Getting His Due in Chicago
Gloria Vanderbilt - “Mrs. Cooper in the long, fluent, heavy apricot crepe that she chose for herself—Mainbocher’s cowled, bias-top dress, dipped low front and back, with a high waist from which the full skirt falls slim as a stream. With this, she likes a necklace of pink and amethyst stones. . . . wears it, here, in the living room of her house in town, a room filled with pale damask, old needlepoint, and family snapshots everywhere.”
