GALENA BATH COMPANY

At a very early age, Luanne Gagliardi was influenced by her grandmother, Francis Pampalone Gagliardi, a designer and seamstress from Sicily. After coming to America, Luanne's grandmother beaded for Liberachi and the Barnum and Bailey Circus. She also hand stitched the pearl accents on Mamie Eisenhower's inaugural gown, which now hangs in the Smithsonian Institute... After earning her degree from FIT, Luanne worked in Manhattan making dresses and purses out of vintage cloth. Within a few years, she moved to the Hamptons and worked in a boutique, "Kimberly's East." "Some of my favorite memories are of the interesting people and celebrities I met. One day, modern artist Willem de Kooning's daughter, Lisa, came into the shop with a wet painting her father had just finished. I will also never forget driving in East Hampton to the beach when stopped at a stop sign I saw Paul and Linda McCartney sitting next to me on the curb," shared Gagliardi... New York native shares talent in Galena,..

Primary location: Galena United States