[2] Among his clients were world-famous female personalities like Coco Chanel, Queen Marie of Romania, Sarah Bernhardt, Greta Garbo, U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Brigitte Bardot.

Her appearance without a hat on the arm of a royal prince caused a sensation; other fashionable ladies soon decided to have their hair styled by Cierplikowski.

This blue hair was taken up by the first professional interior designer, Lady Elsie De Wolfe Mendl, which started a new fad.

[7] The peak of Antoine's career was the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937, when he supervised 400 coiffures in one night.

[citation needed] After the death of his wife in 1973, Cierplikowski returned to his birthplace, Sieradz, where he died in July 1976.