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John P. John (14 March 1902 – 25 June 1993) was an American
John P. John (14 March 1902 – 25 June 1993) was an American milliner
Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear. A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter.
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. According to the New York Times
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, "in the 1940s and 1950s, the name Mr. John was as famous in the world of hat
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s as Christian Dior
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was in the realm of haute couture
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".
Born John Pico Harberger in Munich, Germany, Mr. John studied medicine at University of Lucerne
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, and art at the Sorbonne
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. Mr. John immigrated to the United States in 1919. He apprenticed to his mother, Madame Laurel, as a dressmaker, before forming a partnership with Frederick Hirst, as milliners known as John-Frederics, in 1929. He started his own millinery company, Mr. John, Inc., in New York in 1948.
Mr. John's most famous work was his millinery for Vivien Leigh
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in ''Gone With The Wind
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''. With a long association with Hollywood
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and Broadway
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, his hats were much in demand.
A famous anecdote about Mr. John goes that a woman came into his shop in urgent need of a hat. He built one up right on her head, but she balked when he named his price. He then disassembled the pieces and handed them to her. "That's $3.59," he said, "You make it."
Mr. John was an early licensor of his name & image. He partnered for that purpose in 1953 with Louis Blum of Kent Jewelry for Men as a licensee for Men's Costume Jewelry.
Mr. John was a humble man and attributed all of his success to Mary Pickford.
In 1993 Mr. John died at 91 in his Manhattan
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apartment.
See also
*Milliner
Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear. A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter.
Historically, milliners, typically women shopkeepers, produced or imported an inventory of ...
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