Self-Styled Siren

Gowns by Irene

A brief birthday tribute to a costume-design great

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Self-Styled Siren
Dec 08, 2023
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The Siren hasn’t been around as much as she should, so here are a few words and a handful of images dedicated to someone she very much admires: Irene Maud Lentz, credited as "Irene" during her career as one of Hollywood's great costume designers. She was born this day, December 8, in 1901, in Montana. (Irene once told her friend Doris Day that she had b…

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