| Born in Staten Island (where the family maintained a home throughout her lifetime and beyond) she became a Chapman when she married her first husband Samuel, with whom she went in to business in 1940, having previously set up a company with Gloria Vanderbilt, which traded, albeit briefly, as Her Ladyship Gowns.
The earliest Chapman label, ‘A Chapman Original’, endured for around three or four years until it gave way to the simple black on white, or white on black Ceil Chapman’, which endured until a needle and thread was incorporated in to the logo in the late 1950s to early 1960s. During their business partnership that ended in the mid1960s Ceil and Samuel divorced and she went on to marry Tom Rogers but retained the Chapman name as it had built a following among both the public and movie stars.
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