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Interior designer and "Ambassador of Style"
Andrée Putman passed away yesterday at her home in Paris. From the Daily Beast's
obit:
Putman would rise to become an icon of French chic. She was an
"Ambassador of Style," the title of a 2010 retrospective on her work at
Paris's City Hall. She cultivated close associations with the fashion
world in the 1970s as artistic director of Créateurs & Industriels, a
design bureau and breeding ground for talent famed for launching the
likes of Jean-Paul Gaultier, Issey Miyake, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac,
and Thierry Mugler.
From
France24:
Seen by many as the Grande Dame of French design, the chic Parisienne
was the subject of a retrospective at Paris city hall in 2010.
Her daughter Olivia, who now runs the Putman design studio and who
curated the show, said Andree Putman "became a style ambassador in spite
of herself -- she just did her own thing, she would never have claimed
such a role."
More about Putman, her life and work, at
Studio Putman.
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