Michèle Rosier(1930-2017)

Michelle Rosier was mostly known as an influential French fashion designer but also had a less well known career as a feminist filmmaker.She was born in 1930 and brought up by her mother and her stepfather who confounded Elle Magazine in 1945.She was apparently the first child at the age of ten, to read a new book by a family friend, Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince."She attended the prestigious women's prep school, Nightingale Bamford, on New York City's upper East side. Rosier later founded the brand Vetements de Vacance,French for holiday wear, which specialized in swim and beach attire for the summer and ski outfits for the winter (She was herself an avid skier). A little known credit in her movie database is having designed some of the costumes worn by Audrey Hepburn in "Two For the Road." Her career also included stints in journalism and editing publications. Her body of film work received the honor of a late 2019 retrospective at Brooklyn's cutting edge Spectacle Theatre, where it was seen as making a significant contribution to the interrogation of the limits of the post 1968 era liberation in sexual and political thinking.