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Augusta Lundin (1840 in Kristianstad – 1919) was a Swedish fashion designer. She is considered to be the first international Swedish fashion designer as well as the first well known fashion designer in Sweden.〔Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Gunhild Engholm), hämtad 2015-01-06.〕 Born to tailor Anders Lundin and Christina Andersdotter in Kristianstad, she learned the profession as a child. She later moved to Stockholm, where she was employed at the Hellgren hatshop and the fashion studio of C L Flory & co 1865-67. In 1867, she started her own fashion studio, and in 1874, she made her first study trip to Paris, and started her own fashion paper. Lundin made study trips to Paris once a year and was very successful. She introduced the French method of making every part of a dress separately to Sweden. In 1886, she designed a "reformed costume", a loose dress without corset or bustle, on commission of the reformed dress society, which desired a more healthy dress model for women. Among her clientele were Selma Lagerlöf, Josephine of Leuchtenberg and Sophie of Nassau, as well as international clients. King Oscar II of Sweden gave away her dresses as Christmas gifts every year to the lady-in-waitings at the royal court. In 31 October 1892,〔Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Gunhild Engholm), hämtad 2015-01-06.〕 she was made official dressmaker of the queen, Sophia of Nassau; at assignments for the court, she brought models to the royal palace to display the clothes. Lundin was known as a good employer: she was an honorary member of the dressmaker's society (1880) and aware of the fact that seamstresses often damaged their backs and eyes at work, she instigated a 12-hour work shift and a two-week summer vacation (1890), something quite unique for employers of her time. She employed only women until 1910. At her death in 1919, she left the company to her siblings' children. In the 1920s, the company experienced difficulties because of the simplified fashion and the confection industry; it was closed in 1939. == References == 〔 * Tydén-Jordan, Astrid (1987). ''Kungligt klädd, kungligt mode'', Stockholm:Berg. ISBN 978-91-502-0849-8 * (Augusta Lundin, urn:sbl:9861, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Gunhild Engholm), hämtad 2015-01-06. ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Augusta Lundin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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