Ever wanted to know how the brand Lilly Pulitzer was born? Well here's the inside scoop!
Lilly Pulitzer herself was born on November 10th, 1931 in New York. Which just so happens to be where she was married as well. She married Peter Pulitzer, who was the son of a famous newspaper writer Joseph Pulitzer. When Lilly wast just 21 her and her husband moved to Palm Beach, Florida. There Peter owned several Citrus Groves, which led to the opening of Lilly's juice stand. Hints the popular term, "it all started with a juice stand."
Lilly started to ask her seamstress to make her dresses with sleeveless bright fabrics so they would be able to hide juice stains. Lilly's customers loved her classic shift dresses more then the juice. When Lilly's old roommate, Jackie Kennedy, was spotted wearing "Lilly" on vacation Lilly's business started booming.
Lilly Pulitzer was known as the "Queen of Prep" and she is also known as a socialite and fashion designer. You can find Lilly stores almost anywhere now a days. In every Lilly store there are unique Lilly printed walls that are hand painted by Lilly designers themselves. Before Lilly died at the age of 89 on April 7th, 2013, customers could score lunch with Lilly as an incentive to purchase some of her clothes. Now Lilly stores give out gift with purchases almost once every month, and at retail locations it's called Lunch a Lilly, to keep the legacy going. To this day all Lilly prints that can be seen all around the worlds are created by Lilly studio artists who take inspiration from almost anywhere.
Here are some pictures:
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| The Legend with her daughters. |
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| The amazing Lilly Pulitzer |
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| Lilly with her collection. |
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| Lilly and Peter |
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| Jackie Kennedy and her family |
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| Jackie in a Lilly original! |
I actually did this as a English project so I decided to share some of it with y'all! Hope you Enjoyed this mini History lesson! Until next time,
Xoxo,
Samantha
@theofficialprep
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