Claire was born in Maryland in 1905. She studied fashion and costume design at Parsons School of the Arts in New York as well as at the Paris branch of the school. After graduation, she worked odd jobs sketching, painting, sewing and modelling. She began working as an assistant to designer Robert Turk in 1930. His busi
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