Emilie floge biography

          Born in , Flöge advanced from seamstress to boutique owner at a time of rapid societal change.

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          Emilie Louise Flöge

          Austrian designer and model

          Emilie Louise Flöge (30 August 1874 – 26 May 1952) was an Austrian fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the life companion of the painter Gustav Klimt.

          Biography

          Flöge was the fourth child of the master turner and manufacturer of Meerschaum pipes, Hermann Flöge (1837–1897).

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        4. Born in Vienna in , Flöge emerged into the artistic world of Viennese society as a radical fashion designer and a businesswoman.
        5. Emilie Louise Flöge was an Austrian fashion designer and businesswoman.

          6. Emilie had two sisters, Pauline and Helene, and a brother, Hermann.[1]

          Her first job was as a seamstress, but she later became a couturière. In 1894, Pauline, her elder sister, opened a dressmaking school[2] and Emilie worked there.

          In 1899 the two sisters won a dressmaking competition and were commissioned to make a batiste dress for an exhibition. The same year Flöge handmade the wedding dress for the mother of Gustav Klimt Heiress Maria Altmann.[3]

          In partnership with her sister Helene, after 1904 Flöge established herself as a successful businesswoman and the owner of the haute couture fashion salon known as S