Elzbieta Rosenwerth, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 91, was the doyenne of the South African fashion industry. When she arrived in Cape Town from war-torn Europe in 1952 with a sewing machine and a suitcase, there was little fashion and barely a fashion industry in the country.There was certainly no such thing as high fashion.
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