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  1. Victor Frank Stiebel (14 March 1907—6 February 1976) [1] was a South African-born British couturier. A founder member of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers, he was among the top ten designers in Britain during the war and post-war years. [2]

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    From the start, the press wrote favourably about his work. “Mr Stiebel is a young man, with clear vision, real ability, and sound ambition. There was no “sameness” about the distinctive models that we saw at the first show. Each one possessed a definite character and beauty of its own, and I thought that his evening dresses and day and evening coat...

    A great fan of Stiebel’s tailoring was Marlene Dietrich. In 1932 he created a tailored evening ensemble for her consisting of a short black jacket, white diamanté embellished waistcoat and black trousers. It was an aesthetic she fell in love with and was to become her signature look. The artist Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) also wore his masculine tail...

    During the war, Stiebel signed up for the British Army. During the war years he had to close his house and moved his staff across to Jacqmarand it became “Victor Stiebel at Jacqmar”. He still designed Utility Clothes for the British government while on service, however. When he was demobbed, he worked as part as Jacqmar until 1957. After that, he w...

    Victor had a long-term relationship with the composer Richard “Dick” Adinsell. Because being gay was illegal at the time, the relationship was necessarily discreet but the couple were devoted to one another. Their shared London flat was described as “eclectic and homely”, quite unlike the smart white spaces of Stiebel’s business premises. They also...

    By 1955, Victor Stiebel was suffering from multiple sclerosis. He continued working and rarely complained about his condition. Photos of the time always show him seated, with his cane at his side. In January 1963, the collection he was working on had missed its deadline for completion in time to show the American buyers. His health, deteriorating r...

  2. Victor Stiebel (1907-76), in his obituary in The Times, was described as a well known and highly esteemed British couturier. Yet, for the first eighteen years of his life, Stiebel lived unremarkably in Durban, South Africa, with his middle-class colonial family.

  3. Richard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 1904 – 14 November 1977) [1] was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron).

  4. (24 Feb 1958) "Short and sweet" - that's what Victor Stiebel calls his Summer collection, which was on show at his new salon in London.Find out more about AP...

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  5. Stiebel, Victor. (1907-1976) Victor Stiebel was one of the members of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers (along with Hartnell, Amies and Molyneux) who designed Utility clothes during and immediately after WW2. He also designed Uniforms for the WRENS and WRAF.

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  7. The design was created by Victor Stiebel for Mary Ellis in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's musical Music in the Air, His Majesty's Theatre 1933, produced by C B Cochran. Stiebel had opened his own fashion house the previous year, and had already dressed several productions before designing Ellis's costumes for this major Cochran show.

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