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This outstanding silhouette showcases a strapless corset bodice encrusted with heat set stones with a scoop neckline with pleating, visible boning and a center zipper back

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Customers loved them, and they sold well in department stores, and that was the beginning. McClintock turned the company into an American institution, according to Vogue : With its mix of prairie style la Laura Ingalls Wilder, Victorian corset detailing, and fanciful trimmings, Gunne Sax was cottagecore decades before the concept came into existence. Along the way, says Zimmerman, McClintock combined her creative instincts with developing entrepreneurial skills and started a more mature fashion line under her own name

A celebration of her life is planned for later this year in San Francisco, according to Chronicles obituary.

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