Daisy Fellowes

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Daisy Fellowes

Original Name
Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg
Birth
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
Death
13 Dec 1962 (aged 72)
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
Burial
Bonzac, Departement de la Gironde, Aquitaine, France GPS-Latitude: 45.0043191, Longitude: -0.21552
Plot
Decazes Family Vault
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French socialite, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris editor of American Harper's Bazaar, fashion icon, and an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Born in Paris, she was the only daughter of Isabelle-Blanche Singer (1869–1896) and Jean Élie Octave Louis Sévère Amanien Decazes de Glücksberg (1864–1912), 3rd Duke Decazes and Duke of Glücksberg. Her maternal grandfather was Isaac Singer, the American sewing machine pioneer. After her mother's death, she and her siblings were largely raised by their maternal aunt, Winnaretta Singer (Princess Edmond de Polignac), a noted patron of the arts, particularly music. Her first husband, whom she married on 10 May 1910 in Paris, was Jean Amédée Marie Anatole de Broglie, Prince de Broglie . He died of influenza on 20 February 1918 while serving with the French Army in Mascara, Algeria.

Her second husband, whom she married on 9 August 1919 in London, was The Hon. Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes. She was known as one of the most daring fashion plates of the 20th century, arguably the most important patron of the surrealist couturier Elsa Schiaparelli. She was also a friend of the jeweller Suzanne Belperron, and she was a longtime customer of jeweller Cartier. Daisy Fellowes died on 13 December 1962 at her hôtel particulier in Paris, Daisy was entombed in the Decazes Family Vault at the Bonzac Cemetery, In Bonzac France.
French socialite, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris editor of American Harper's Bazaar, fashion icon, and an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Born in Paris, she was the only daughter of Isabelle-Blanche Singer (1869–1896) and Jean Élie Octave Louis Sévère Amanien Decazes de Glücksberg (1864–1912), 3rd Duke Decazes and Duke of Glücksberg. Her maternal grandfather was Isaac Singer, the American sewing machine pioneer. After her mother's death, she and her siblings were largely raised by their maternal aunt, Winnaretta Singer (Princess Edmond de Polignac), a noted patron of the arts, particularly music. Her first husband, whom she married on 10 May 1910 in Paris, was Jean Amédée Marie Anatole de Broglie, Prince de Broglie . He died of influenza on 20 February 1918 while serving with the French Army in Mascara, Algeria.

Her second husband, whom she married on 9 August 1919 in London, was The Hon. Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes. She was known as one of the most daring fashion plates of the 20th century, arguably the most important patron of the surrealist couturier Elsa Schiaparelli. She was also a friend of the jeweller Suzanne Belperron, and she was a longtime customer of jeweller Cartier. Daisy Fellowes died on 13 December 1962 at her hôtel particulier in Paris, Daisy was entombed in the Decazes Family Vault at the Bonzac Cemetery, In Bonzac France.