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Les Bernard / Vogue

Les Bernard, 1936 - present:
Vogue was founded by Harold Shapiro and two other partners in 1936. The Shapiro family ended their association with Vogue in 1962; however, the Vogue name continued until the mid-1970's.

Following the family tradition, Bernard Shapiro, Harold's son, founded the Les Bernard operation in 1963.

Les Bernard was a pioneer in jewelry designs featuring rhinestones with marcasites. Whereas the backs of rhinestones are pointed, those of marcasites are flat. Consequently working with them required intensive model-making, with different settings for each marcasite stone as opposed to the settings necessary for rhinestones, To mix the two obviously involved a labor-intensive task, making these pieces far more involved to produce than they might, at first glance, appear. This layout work was done by Bernard Shapiro's master partner, Lester Joy - hence the name 'Les Bernard'."

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Les Bernard                                                         Vogue

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Les Bernard

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