Ladies who Collect Haute-Couture
Joy Venturini Bianchi and a part of her her couture collection up fot auction. (Drew Altizer Photography)
Up for auction a part of; Mouna Ayoub’s couture collection
Karl Lagerfeld and Mouna Ayoub (credits getty images via lafigaro)
Up for auction a part of; Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain’s couture collection
Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain
research scholar Kimberly Christman-Campbell, left, and curator Sharon S. Takeda survey items; Credit: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times
Suzanne Saperstein and her beau in 2010 (via soposh.blogg.se)
Joy Venturini Bianchi, Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain, Mouna Ayoub, are collectors of Haute Couture fashion and at one point put (a part) of their private collection up for auction. (Joy Venturini Bianchi and Mouna Ayoub also are well kmown philanthropist’s. Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain was a muse to the late Yves Saint Laurent in the 1960s, and later an artistic advisor at Dior). Suzanne Saperstein (according to Vanity Fair in 2002 is the world’s biggest consumer of haute couture) donated a large sum to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the study and display of 18th and 19th century European clothing.