Jean Patou, The most Elegant man in Europe! Born in Paris in 1887 into a family of tanners based in Picardy, Jean-Alexandre Patou, renamed Jean Patou, first joined the army before turning his eye to fashion. His father was a tanner of chamois for luxury leather goods and his mother, a housewife. More @Wikipedia
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