Oleg Cassini

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Oleg Cassini (11 April 1913 – 17 March 2006) was an American fashion designer born to an aristocratic Russian family with maternal Italian ancestry.

Since starting as a designer in Rome and then moving to the United States as a young man, he joined He joined He began as a designer and then went straight to work with Paragraph Pictures.

Cassini made his name by designing for films. When Jacqueline Kennedy was the First Lady of the United States, he became well-known as a designer for her Jacqueline Kennedy.

The "Jackie Look" was to become very popular and widely admired.

Sports and Native American history were two of Cassini's inspirations.

Early life

He was born in Paris as Oleg Aleksandrovich Loiewski, the elder son of Countess Marguerite Cassini and her husband, Count Alexander Loiewski, a Russian diplomat, thereby obtaining the rank of Count. Arthur Paul Cassini, Marquis de Capuzzuchuchuchuchuchy di Bologna, Count Cassini, had been the Russian ambassador to the US during William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt's administrations. Arthur Cassini, the founder of Japan and China, signed the Treaty bringing an end to the conflict between Japan and China. Giovanni Domenico Cassini, an Italian astronomer, was identified as an ancestor by his mother. The Loiewski family had to leave for their lives in 1918, leaving behind their fortune, lands, and houses. Oleg's cousin was shot to death as a youth. The family migrated to Denmark and then moved to Switzerland. The Greek royal family brought them to Greece, but in Greece, the revolution began also. They were rescued from the train in Florence and then settled there. The children in Italy began to use Cassini's surname.

Cassini suffered a major accident in his youth, nearly losing his leg. He spent a year in bed recuperation, during which he read extensively, including American James Fenimore Cooper. He developed a passion for history and skepticism of Native American tribes. He also discovered American culture by watching films from the United States that were shown in Italy.

When he first started training, Oleg had to learn Italian, but he already knew Russian, French, and Danish. Marguerite Cassini's mother founded her fashion store in Florence, attracting American clients from people she knew in Washington, D.C., as the daughter of Count Arthur Cassini.

Cassini competed for soccer with Fiorentina's teenage team, the "Boys," and she was active in both the university and ski teams. He competed for the Italian Jr. Davis Cup team, becoming the Italian Jr. Champion.

Cassini studied Political Science at the University of Florence and became a natural equestrian. At the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, he studied fine art under painter Giorgio de Chirico. He returned to fashion after completing studies with French couturier Jean Patou. Cassini took home a number of international fashion competitions in Turin, including five first prizes in Mostra Moda for sketches and Most Creative Presentation for an evening dress painted in vibrant colors on silver foil, winning a 5,000 lire. Cassini opened his own boutique in Rome and designed for the local film industry as well as Roman society.

After winning a duel, Oleg became engaged to Anna Donnina Toeplitz, in Rome, and then moved to America. On Christmas Day 1936, he sailed to America on the Saturnia and landed in New York. On his arrival in America, his possessions were limited to a tuxedo, two tennis rackets, a trophy, and talent. On his arrival in Washington, D.C., he briefly worked as a political cartoonist before heading to Hollywood.

Personal life

Cassini married Mary "Merry" Fahrney (1910-1974) in Elkton, Maryland, on September 2, 1938. In 1940, the couple divorced. Gene Tierney, a Cassini married actress, married Cassini on June 2, 1941. Antoinette Daria, their daughter, was born on October 15th, 1943, blind, deaf, and with severe brain damage. She died on September 11, 2010. Cassini and Daria's fifty percent interest in the marital estate was donated to the continuing care of Daria on October 20, 1946. On March 13, 1947, Tierney obtained an uncontested divorce in California, and the divorce would have been finalized a year later, on March 13, 1948. However, Cassini's diary shows that they reconciled some months before that. In April 1948, they announced that they were back together. In the Los Angeles Times on April 9, 1948, Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper announced the news. Christina "Tina" was their second daughter and died in 2015. In 1953, the two couples finally divorced.

Cassini dated and was engaged to Grace Kelly following his brother's separation from Gene Tierney. Susanna Moore suspects Cassini attacked her. He and Tierney were cordial until her 1991 death, when she bequeathed one dollar to their daughter Daria and the remainder to Christina. Cassini married model Marianne Nestor in 1971. Marianne began marketing the licensing and public relations segments of the brand, which they largely opposed. Marianne and her daughter Tina got into a bitter court contest over the estate but it was kept private until after his death; In an article in Vanity Fair in 2010, the status of the fight was reaffirmed. Christina died in 2015. A piece in Newsday, which was updated in September 2018, outlined the legal battle; at the time Marianne was in jail for refusing to obey a court order. Doyle auctioned Cassini's estate in June 2019.

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Career

Cassini started playing tennis at the West Side Tennis Club right after arriving in California. After he competed in and won a doubles tournament, his partner announced himself as the head of Paramount Pictures, saying he was "looking for another designer." Cassini returned to the studio the next day and took over Cassini took over For Cassini was in charge of Cassini took the job as a full designer for Paragraph Pictures. I Wanted Wings, 1941, was his first film, for which he created the look for the film's star, Veronica Lake, which was shot in 1941.

For Rita Hayworth's Edge (1946), Cassini created costumes for films including The Shanghai Gesture (1941), starring Gene Tierney (1942), It's a Joke Son. (1947) Born to Speed (1947), Lost Honeymoon (1947), That Wonderful Urge (1948), Whirlpool (1950), The Greatest Journey (1949), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), The Tammy Grimes Show (1966), Peligro (1966)... The Ambushers (1967) for Dean Martin, SOS Conspiracion Bikini (1967), and Say It in Russian (2006) for Faye Dunaway.

His designs were worn in Meet Joe Black's climactic scene (1998) and into the (2009) edition of Ready or Not. Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Temple, Anita Ekberg, Janet Leigh, Katherine Wood, Natalie Wood, Ursula Andress, Michael Bennett, Barbara Moore, Joan Crawford, Dorothy Wood, Shannon Abbott, and Taylor Swift appeared in films over his career, including Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Temple, Anita Ekberg, Anita Ekberg, Anita Ekberg, Janet Leigh, Timothy Leigh, Jayne Burne, Jennifer Bennett, Johannathon

Cassini was quickly enlisted in the war effort after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He joined the United States Coast Guard first, but later served in the US Army as a cavalry officer. He rose to the rank of first lieutenant. Cassini became a United States citizen in December 1941-January 1942, losing his titles of nobility; he was commissioned as a first Lieutenant at Fort Riley, Kansas. Cassini, who had been in the United States Cavalry for five years, moved to New York City in 1952 to open his own fashion store on Seventh Avenue, the fashion capital.

Cassini designed ready-to-wear dresses in the wake of the war, as well as continuing to design for television, motion pictures, and Broadway theatre. Jack L. Warner's biography says, "You're better than Errol Flynn" in Cassini's role as head of design for Warner Bros. Studios. He stayed in New York rather than working with Warner Brothers and created his own design firm. Cassini had enough funds to debut one line, his first Collection, which attracted rave reviews. Cassini also took his designs "on the road" to his customers in trunk shows and special fashion events in order to promote the new lines. The in-store events developed to television, and Cassini introduced his product on Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Dinah Shore, Phil Donahue, and Good Morning America. Carson had a line created for him by Cassini, which he wore solely for the show, and the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson received nightly honour.

Cassini's reputation grew as a result of his original spontaneous style, and shortly before his marriage to John Kennedy, Cassini was introduced as "Queen Deb of the Year" by his brother, society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker, in 1947.

Cassini's appointment as her sole couturier in 1961 dubbed him her "Secretary of Style" and gave him a position of aristocratic. "We are on the brink of a new American elegance thanks to Mrs. Kennedy's beauty, naturalness, understatement, and symbolism," Cassini said when his appointment as the couturier to style the entire look of the First Lady was revealed.

Cassini's unique Jacqueline Kennedy's elegant simplicity, based on clean lines and crisp textures, opulent, and luxurious fabrics, ushered in a new age of timeless simplicity based on clear lines and crisp fabrics. Cassini brought American design to the international stage as the First Lady's identity became synonymous with elegance and taste. Women from around the world replicated his "Jackie look" he created. Cassini portrayed her as an American Queen and Mrs. Kennedy confessed that "Oleg dressed me for the role."

With an elegant coiffure, Cassini derived from his 1962-1960s experience with women from 18 to 80. Meticulously tailored and containing large buttons and boxy jackets, as well as occasional dramatic décolletage, are often used. Cassini produced a reported 300 outfits for the First Lady, including a much-copied coat of leopard pelts and a Swiss double satin white gown embroidered by a single cocarde who wore a single cocarde to the Inaugural Gala Ball in 1961. This was Mrs. Kennedy's first official appearance as First Lady Elect. The dress was subsequently named one of the "50 Dresses That Changed the World" by the Design Museum in England.

"According to Tobe's most recent coast to coast survey, the most well known name in American fashion is Oleg Cassini."

Cassini came to prominence mainly for his licencia deals. In 1989, he was the recipient of a Doctorate of Fine Arts.

His name graced everything from luggage to nail polish, as well as special luxurious coupé versions of the 1974 and 1975 AMC Matador automobiles. Cassini's Matador is distinguishing outside, striping, rust rails, wheel covers, and a crest. He was instrumental in AMC's advertisement. Oleg Cassini Matador was one of the most popular and lucrative "personal luxury vehicle" market segment. Collectors are drawn to the Cassini "designer Editions"'s "distinctive" style.

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