Michèle Rosier V de V (Vetements de Vacances)

1960s 100% authentic vintage
jumpsuit ski long sleeves, hybride - inspired by a mechanic's overalls
perfecto style zip and collar
French Size 40
Color black
100% Polyamide

Very good condition, looking unworn

references Raquel Welch in Fathom, Audrey Hepburn, Françoise Hardy, Donyale Luna
as portrayed by Queen magazine 1966, Vogue UK 1968

Michele Rosier, the daughter of Elle editor Helene Gordon-Lazareff, ran her own popular ready-to-wear label. V de V was short for “Vetements de Vacances,” or “Vacation Clothes.” She specialized in stylish skiwear, exemplified by this boldly-printed jacket, and was nicknamed the “Queen of Vinyl: for her pioneering use of that material.

Biography
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Michèle Lazareff Rosier (3 June 1930 – 2 April 2017)
was a French fashion journalist and designer who founded the V de V sportswear label. In addition to this, she worked as a film director and screenwriter since 1973.

Early life and education
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Born Michèle Lazareff in 1930, her parents were the journalist Hélène Gordon-Lazareff (1909–1988) and her first husband. Michèle was then adopted by Pierre Lazareff (1907–1972), with whom Gordon-Lazareff remarried. Her two parents founded Elle magazine. Aged 10, she was the first child to read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a close friend of her parents.

She studied at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York.

Journalism
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Lazareff Rosier started out as a journalist for her father's daily paper, France Soir before becoming chief editor of the magazine Le Nouveau Femina.

Fashion
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In the early 1960s Rosier founded V de V (which stands for Vêtements de Vacance, or 'Holiday Wear'). She also designed for at least two other lines: dresses for Chloe D'Alby, and a line of affordable furs called Monsieur Z which included pink and blue dyed rabbit fur coats. However, her V de V designs, including both fashionable sportswear and activewear such as swimwear and ski-wear, were very successful. She was noted as an early adopter of vinyl and stretch fabrics, with one New York reporter commenting in 1965 on the close similarity between her two-colour jersey dresses and Yves Saint Laurent's subsequent Mondrian dresses.[3] Due to her love of plastics, she was nicknamed the "Vinyl Girl,"[6] and has been credited with introducing vinyl to Paris fashion before André Courrèges, to whom she was compared by the International Herald Tribune for her "style without nostalgia." She has also been credited with being the first designer to deliberately use outsize industrial zippers. A contemporary press piece in 1968 ranked Rosier alongside Emmanuelle Khanh and Christiane Bailly as part of a "new race" of innovative and exciting young French designers, described as "stylists who work for ready-to-wear."

Rosier, herself a keen skier, produced particularly distinctive ski-wear whose streamlined design was in stark contrast to previous models. In 1966 Eugenia Sheppard proclaimed that Rosier's slimline skiwear had "defeated the old-time bulky teddy-bear look". Other suits were made in quilted nylon velvet and vivid colours with detachable face panels such as the one featured on the front cover of Sports Illustrated magazine for 13 November 1967. She offered helmets with rotating green-to-clear visors (designed by Monique Dofny)[10] and her "stainless steel" and silver suits in nylon and lurex were described as "pure James Bond," and having "cosmic flair."

Rosier also designed for White Stag in the USA, and Jaeger in the UK. One of her clear PVC raincoats for Young Jaeger was chosen by Ernestine Carter as part of the Dress of the Year for 1966, along with a Simone Mirman hat and a Young Jaeger black and white dress. She designed parachute jumpsuits for Raquel Welch to wear in the 1967 film Fathom.