Renié

Born Irene Brouillet in Republic, Washington, Renié studied at Chouinard Art Institute and the University of California in Los Angeles.

[1] For over three decades, she was noted for clothing the stars in subtle, elegant outfits, such as the eponymous dresses that Ginger Rogers wore as the glamorous all-American working girl in Kitty Foyle (1940).

She got her start designing theatre sets and then began working as a sketch artist for Paramount Pictures.

Renié was an adherent of the Church of Christ, Scientist, who contended that her faith enabled her to overcome worldly ambition, putting her work on an unselfish and solid foundation.

[2] She died at the age of 91 years in Los Angeles County, California.