Valentina Nicholaevna Sanina Schlee (1 May 1899 – 14 September 1989), known professionally simply as Valentina, was a Russia

Russia

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n émigrée fashion designer and theatrical

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 costume designer

Costume Designer

A costume designer or costume mistress/master is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or stage production. He or she is considered an important part of the "production team", working alongside the director, scenic and lighting designers as well as the sound designer. The...

 active from 1928 to the late 1950s.

Schlee was born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine. She was studying drama in Kharkov at the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. She met financier George Schlee (d.