Oleg Cassini

Oleg Cassini is an American fashion designer. He was born Oleg Cassini Loiewski in Paris, France in 1913. He was raised in Italy, and moved to the United States in 1936, where he designed clothes for various Hollywood studios. He became a second lieutenant in the Army in World War II, at Fort Reilly, Kansas, and later returned to New York, where he design ready-to-wear dresses while continuing to design for television and Broadway.

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