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Galitzine was born to Prince Boris — , an official of the imperial guard of the aristocratic Galitzine family, whose origins date back to and a Georgian mother, Princess Nina Lazareff — However, her family were forced to flee the country following the October Revolution, and took up residence in Italy. After studying art in Rome, English at Cambridge and French at the Sorbonne, Galitzine joined the Italian designers, the Fontana sisters in and worked with them for 3 years.

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In she opened her own salon and presented her first collection. In , she achieved great success with the launch of her "palazzo pyjamas" which were wide legged evening trousers made of soft silk. Evening pyjamas became a firm fixture of the fashion scene during the s. Currently, some of her original "palazzo pyjama" collection still exist in important museums around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Costume Museum in St.

Petersburg, Russia.

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In , the Galitzine label was purchased by the Xines Company. In September , Galitizine opened her first boutique in Moscow, and in November of the same year she published her biography entitled "From Russia to Russia". On October 20, , she died at her home in Rome, aged It was a very spacious, low building, about eighty feet long, with many large apartments Home Contact Privacy.

Biography Galitzine was born to Prince Boris — , an official of the imperial guard of the aristocratic Galitzine family, whose origins date back to and a Georgian mother, Princess Nina Lazareff — Source s : Wikipedia Biography Creative Commons.