Lucien Lelong was a French couturier who was prominent from the 1920s to the 1940s. Lelong born in Paris on October 11, 1889 in a fashion designer family. His father and his mother, Arthur Camille Joseph Lelong and Eleonore Marie Lambelet, dressmakers, move their shop in 1898, from the rue Vignon to settle at No. 18 in the Place de la Madeleine in Paris. After his military service, he entered as a student at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales from 1911 to 1913. Passionate about fashion, he learned the trade alongside his uncle, a fabric merchant and discovered the fabrics. He redecorates the fitting room of his parents in black. On August 4, 1914, he had to present his first collection but, on August 2, he was mobilized for the First World War and went to the front line. On May 24, 1917, he was seriously wounded by shrapnel and spent nine months in hospital. He takes over the activities of the family fashion house in 1918. In 1919, he married Anne-Marie AUDOY, of whom he had a daughter named Nicola the following year. In 1921, the fashion house takes the name of Lucien Lelong and will know its glory days from 1927 to the old of the second world war. One month after his divorce from his first wife, he married August 9, 1927 with Natalie Paley, Princess Romanov. His relationship with Nazi Germany spawned after the war a suspicion of collaboration. He will be brought before a court and acquitted in 1945, the court recognizing that he had collaborated at least for the sole purpose of preserving the patrimony and the employment of the personnel of the profession. He closed his fashion house in 1949 and live near Biarritz in the town of Anglet after remarrying for the third time in 1954, with Sanda Dancovici. Lucien Lelong dies of a heart attack on the night of May 11, 1958.