{"id":552603,"date":"2023-01-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=552603"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T12:33:29","slug":"from-herminie-to-rome-famed-fashion-designer-s-memorabilia-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/from-herminie-to-rome-famed-fashion-designer-s-memorabilia-up-for-auction","title":{"rendered":"From Herminie to Rome: Famed fashion designer&#8217;s memorabilia up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a long journey from the coal patch town of Herminie in Sewickley Township to the top of the Spanish Steps at 15 Piazza Trinita del Monti in Rome.About 4,544 miles, to be precise.Although the late John W. &#8220;Jack&#8221; Savage might have grown up in the company town where some women wore housecoats and babushkas, he rose to the top of the fashion world in the 1960s, designing and selling silk jersey and chiffon creations to the rich and famous in Italy from La Mendola, a fashion label and boutique he created with his partner, Michael La Mendola, also from Pennsylvania.Among the clientele of the company they founded in 1961 were famed actresses Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Ursula Andress and Loretta Young, as well as celebrities such as Nelson Rockefeller&#8217;s wife, &#8220;Happy,&#8221; syndicated columnist Ann Landers and a woman who became infamous for her shoe collection, Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos.News stories of the day described the work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a long journey from the coal patch town of Herminie in Sewickley Township to the top of the Spanish Steps at 15 Piazza Trinita del Monti in Rome. About<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty-fashion","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}