Crahay's Overnight Success at Nina Ricci & Vogue #1388

Is there such a thing as "overnight success?" Artists tend to shrug off that idea, the designer Jules-Francois Crahay included. When the press joined in acclamation to declare Crahay an overnight success in March of 1959, he responded, "I have done the same type of dresses for the last six years. Nobody looked at them then, so how can I take my success seriously?"