Flora Isaacs Lazard, 1890-1972
The French Quarter’s Louise Shop, founded by Flora Isaacs Lazard (1890-1972), employed needlewomen, many from rural areas of the state as well as immigrants, to handsew infants’ and children’s wear. Lazard was one of the main leaders involved in saving this Louisiana art and facilitating its national reputation. She is remembered as having a talent for organizational skills, resulting in a business that continued through three generations of women in the Isaacs-Lazard families. She passed down the shop to her daughter Lylian Lazard Saiewitz who ran it as the Lylian Shop, and in turn, passed it to her own daughter, Leslie Saiewitz Bingham. The shop continues today as Pippin Lane shops.
Label from child’s dress, designed and created for the Louise Shop, ca. 1939. LSU Textile & Costume Museum, Louisiana State University.
Child’s Dress. designed and created for the Louise Shop, ca. 1939. LSU Textile & Costume Museum, Louisiana State University.
Image on stationery from the Lylian shop showing Lylian Lazard Saiewitz, circa 1925, Courtesy of Pippen Lane.
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