Sonja de Lennart explained

Sonja de Lennart (born 21 May 1920) is a German fashion designer. In 1948, she invented capri pants.^{[1] [2]}

Early life

de Lennart was born in Prussia in 1920.^[3] She grew up in Wrocław, and then studied textiles in Berlin.

Fashion career

In 1945, after the war, Sonja de Lennart began to produce fashion wear and opened her first boutique, Salon Sonja, in Munich. In the beginning she would cut piece of paper to demonstrate the fit of clothing on her customers.

Her design collection was named the Capri Collection^[4] after the Island of Capri that was important to the designer.^[5]

de Lennart first made Capri pants in the late 1940s and the actresses Mady Rahl and Erni Mangold wore them in 1949.^[6] The Capri pant had a short slit on the outer-side of the pant leg, and they started to become popular in 1954 when Audrey Hepburn wore them in the movie A Heart and a Crown.^[7]

In 1952, Edith Head used de Lennart's Capri Collection including a skirt, a high-neck blouse, and Capri pants for Audrey Hepburn in the movie, Roman Holiday.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 18. Juli 2003 / sw Abbildung: The Fifties (Fashionsourcebooks), Paperback Verlag. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719113601/http://www.wasistwas.de/sport-kultur/alle-artikel/artikel/link//462cb9e5d0/article/die-caprihose-modisches-highlight-der-50er-jahre.html . 2011-07-19.
2. http://www.fashionstyleyou.co.uk/index.php?s=sonja+de+lennart - Capri Pants: A Timeless Fashion Trend
3. Web site: MoMA: Art and artists . Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
4. Book: Hendricks, Nancy . Popular Fads and Crazes through American History: [2 volumes] ]. 2018-08-17 . Bloomsbury Publishing USA . 978-1-4408-5183-4 . 274–276 . en.
5. Book: Antonelli, Paola . ITEMS : is fashion modern? . 2017 . New York, New York : Museum of Modern Art . Internet Archive . 978-1-63345-036-3.
6. News: Gallardo . Carmen . 7 Apr 2012 . CAPRI, CE N'EST PAS FINI . El Mundo ; Madrid . 15 . Proquest.
7. News: Reitter-Welter . Barbara . 28 June 2015 . Fur Klosterschulerinnen verboten . Welt am Sonntag; Berlin . Proquest.
8. Web site: Muñoz . Elena . 2023-09-02 . The history of capri pants, the design that encouraged women around the world to forget skirts and dresses . 2024-10-18 . EL PAÍS English . en-us.