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exclusive designer labels so Pearl made up some fictitious designer name for the dresses. A while later Leona came back from Holly- wood, Florida raving over the design and how many compliments she was receiving. She wanted more. Pearl was forced to admit that she, herself, was the designer. That led to Leona telling her husband that they should invest as silent partners in a clothing business run by Pearl and Al Nipon. That business became Ma Mere maternity design. In 1972 Pearl and Al sold Ma Mere and formed Albert Nipon, a company that created women’s clothing designs of such originality that the company became a brand name in the fashion
MA MERE Al and Pearl turned the business into one that first sold women’s regular clothing and then, after a maternity dress design of Pearl’s attracted some investment money, a very successful maternity clothing business called Ma Mere. The way that happened was that a very wealthy woman named Leona Bodek, whose husband was very success- ful in the real estate business, asked Pearl to find her some fashionable maternity clothes. There just weren’t any available at the time so Pearl came up with her own design and had it made for the woman. Pearl knew that the woman loved
Albert Nipon - The dress business begins to take off.
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