Rose Valois

'''Rose Valois''' was the name of a millinery establishment in Paris founded in 1927 by Madame Fernand Cleuet, Vera Leigh, and one other.<ref name=perkins>{{cite book|last1=Perkins|first1=Alice K.|title=Paris Couturiers and Milliners|date=1949|publisher=Fairchild Publications|page=63}}</ref> It closed in 1970.<ref name=wad>{{cite book|last1=Waddell|first1=Gavin|title=How fashion works : couture, ready-to-wear, and mass production |date=2004 |publisher=Blackwell Science|location=Oxford, UK |isbn=9781118814994 |page=105 |edition=Online-Ausg.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GX-uAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA105}}</ref><ref name=vera>{{cite book|last1=Escott|first1=Beryl E.|title=Heroines of the SOE Britain's secret women in France |date=2010 |publisher=History |location=Stroud |isbn=9780752462455 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qxg7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT94}}</ref> During its time, it was considered one of the leading milliners of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.<ref name=wad/>

The founders of Rose Valois had all worked with Caroline Reboux, leaving in 1927 to found their own salon.<ref name=wad/> Rose was Mme Cleuet's first name, and Valois was a construct made up from the initials of Vera Leigh and the other (as yet unidentified) woman.<ref name=perkins/><ref name=dbnp>{{cite book|last1=Nicholas|first1=Elizabeth|title=Death be not proud|date=1958|publisher=Cresset Press|location=London|pages=86–88}}</ref> Leigh left Rose Valois in 1940,<ref name=dbnp/> which remained in business through the occupation of France by enemy German forces during World War II,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vaudoyer |first1=Mary |title=Whisper of truth |date=2012|publisher=Memoirs Publishing |isbn=9781909304307 |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51CaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA88}}</ref> despite Leigh's later involvement as a member of the French Resistance, leading to her arrest and execution by the Germans in 1944.<ref name=vera/> Rose's husband, Fernand Cleuet (d. June 1961) was chief executive officer of the establishment.<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary for Fernand Cleuet|url=http://patrimoine.editionsjalou.com/lofficiel-de-la-mode-numero_473-474-page_466-detailp-13-518-466.html|accessdate=29 October 2015|work=L'officiel de la mode|issue=473–474|date=1961|page=466|language=French}}</ref>

Simone Mirman, who later found fame as one of London's foremost milliners in the 1940s-1960s, served her apprenticeship with Valois.<ref name=horwell>{{cite news |last1=Horwell |first1=Veronica |title=Obituary: Simone Mirman|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/14/fashion.britishidentity|accessdate=18 July 2014|work=The Guardian|date=14 August 2008}}</ref>

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Category:Hat companies Category:Clothing companies of France Category:Manufacturing companies based in Paris Category:Clothing companies established in 1927 Category:Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1970 Category:1927 establishments in France Category:1970 disestablishments in France