Tuesday June 18, 2013
Designer brought chic to dreary '50s Toronto
Couture clothing designer and entrepreneur Lynne Tyrrell lived in a sequined world of her own creation, a world filled with fabrics, feathers and fur. Having hired a bona fide baroness to sketch designs for her business, Ms. Tyrrell chose The Baroness as the name for her Toronto boutique. She didn't mind at all that the title, with its aristocratic cachet, was soon being applied to her.
Madeleine Villeneuve Biron
Madeleine was born in the middle of a cold winter to a small Quebec family of four (at least small by the province's 1920s standard).She grew to become a beautiful girl and developed a very close relationship with her older sister, Therese. Tragedy struck when Therese did not survive open-heart surgery meant to save her life, and the bond they shared came abruptly to an end.