Léo TISSANDIE (French, Bessuéjouls 1888 - 1951 Paris)

Pierre Léon Jules TISSANDIÉ, born November 24 1888 in Bessuéjouls, Aveyron, and died August 20 1951 in Paris, was fashion designer active in the 1920s-1940s. Born in the family of Joseph Félix TISSANDIÉ, innkeeper and farmer, and Marie Philomène Agathe ARRIBAT, he made his way in middle 1910s first as a painter, and further as a fashion sketcher, with the first studio situated at 40 boulevard Clichy, and the next and the last montmartrois workshop situated for more than 30 years at 48 rue d'Orsel in Paris (at the same place where Georges BRAQUE had his workshop). Very early he employs more designers for his studio, mostly young women, also offering private lessons called "Leçons-Figurines" of fashion drawing for five students every year during all his life. At the end of the 1920s he publishes fashion designs in the fashion magazines under his own name. In April 1932 he participates in "Salon de la Mode" in the Manuel frères gallery, rue Dumont-Durville, with DETHENCOURT-DEVAUX, Guy HUZE, Claude MARQUIS, Roger BRARD, Leoneti, Denise CHARLEVILLE, where more the 500 drawings of new designs were exposed. In the 1935, the magazine "Ganterie : revue technique des industries du gant" (Gloves: technical review of glove industries) devotes three pages to the interview with Léo about glove fashions and the embroidery. His glove designs are published several times in this magazine during the end of 1930s. May 8 1940, he marries Odette Gracy Marie Louise ARON, born September 4 1905 in Irun, Spain, and died May 22 1997 in Paris. During the World War II, Léo TISSANDIE contunes to work in his studio in Paris, and in his villa in the hamlet of Les Masseries in Saint-Géry. He produces less fashion designs, and devotes himself to painting, especially landscapes, and exposes in April 1943 at the gallery of Suzanne FROISSART. Léo TISSANDIE died August 20 1951 at his home-studio in 18th arrondissement of Paris, known as Butte-Montmartre. A designer in the service of the greatest haute couture houses, the studio of Léo TISSANDIE imagines Art Deco dresses, refined suits, avant-garde combinations that he layers on paper in a few sharp strokes of the pencil, before entrusting them to the houses of the most prestigious Parisian haute couture. At the service of Chanel, Jean Patou, Lucien Lelong, Maggy Rouff, Jeanne Lanvin, Doucet, Molyneux, Madeleine Vionnet or even Marcel Rochas, he is one of those designers who from the Roaring Twenties shaped French elegance and was able to adapt to the style of each house and to the tastes of his time.
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