House of Adair (French, active around 1920-1934)

House of Adair was a French fashion business house created around 1920 at 4, Cité Paradis in Paris by Willy ROSANBERG. The house was specialized in the resale and export of fashion clothes already made by small workshops held by Russian immigration and specialized in embroidery. Her clientele is international, haute couture dresses are sent to the United Kingdom, the United States or even Canada. Exports peaked around 1924-25. The house closed on May 1, 1934. Willy ROSENBERG (ROSAMBERT from 1914) was born on January 6, 1871 in Danzig in Poland. After meeting Madeleine SINAUER, the daughter of a New York merchant, the young couple married on March 26, 1906 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris where they immigrated. ROSENBERG then starts a sales activity, brokerage and trading specialized in clothing with his father-in-law Herman SINAUER based in New York. In 1914, the couple was already part of high society in Paris, as an article in the newspaper Le Figaro proves. While Willy ROSENBERG is requisitioned for the war, the newspaper announces in its column "worldly opinion - Displacement and vilégiature" that his wife, Madeleine SINAUER, withdraws to Versailles. The company changed its name in May 1924 to take the name of "Willie Rosambert House". (The four ROSENBERG brothers (Max, Willy, André and Sylvain) had asked to change their name in 1914, transforming ROSENBERG into ROSANBERG) Willy ROSANBERG was promoted to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honor. He died at the age of 63 on October 24, 1934. The couple had 3 daughters : Their first daughter, Suzanne, is a famous French resistant, known as Suzanne Torrès. She has been married 3 times. The 1st husband Jacques Darnetal, whose real name is Jacques Bernheim, was a French novelist, son of Georges Bernheim, a rich art galierist in Paris. The 2nd husband, Henry Torrès, was a famous French politician. Her third and last husband was Jacques Emile Charles Marie Massu, a general in the French army. Their second daughter, Jeannine, married in 1931, Serge Heftler Louiche, the founder of the company Dior Parfum. Their third daughter, Colette, married in 1935 Philippe Boegner, a French press boss and writer notably known for being the magazine director of Marie Claire magazines, Paris Soir and Paris Match.
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