Pauline Trigère AMERICAN ICONIC FASHION DESIGNER

Description: Francisco Medavog has being collection American fashion designers since the late 1980's many of his pieces are from the first years of America's top couturiers. Pauline Trigère, Exemplar of American Style, Dies at 93 By ENID NEMY Published: February 14, 2002 NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE PRINT SINGLE-PAGE Pauline Trigère, the Paris-born designer who was not only her own best model but also an elegant and chic symbol of the American fashion industry for more than half a century, died at her home on the East Side of Manhattan last night, said her daughter-in-law Melanie Radley. She was 93. ''Fashion is what people tell you to wear,'' she often said. ''Style is what comes from your own inner thing.'' She herself was an exemplar of style, and was described by her peers as ''a truly intellectual designer'' and ''a creator of timeless fashion'' in ready-to-wear clothes. Her 50th anniversary in fashion, a milestone reached by no other designer in this country, was celebrated in 1992 at a benefit fashion show and dinner at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. It was attended by 600 of the most influential names in design, manufacturing and retailing, as well as by scores of social and theater personalities who were both clients and friends. The following year, at a ceremony at Lincoln Center, Miss Trigère received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.