Jacques Fath

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Jacques Fath was a French self-taught designer.  His designs made it to America in the late 1940s and 1950s.  He died in 1954 of leukemia at the age of 42.  His widow operated his fashion house until 1957.

Jacques Fath lacquered metal allowing the shiny silver “JF” initials to shine through the lacquer.  Irregular shape with the small metal shank impressed and glued into the lacquer.  1 7/16”

From Wikipedia:
Fath appeared in Scandal on the Champs-Élysées (1949, directed by Roger Blanc).

He designed costumes for several films:^[14]

• Entre onze heures et minuit (1948, directed by Henri Decoin)
• Quai des orfèvres (1947, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot)
• The Red Shoes (1948, costumes for Moira Shearer)
• La minute de vérité (1952)
• Genevieve (1953, costumes for Kay Kendall)
• Abdullah the Great (1955)

Jacques Fath with wife 1950

Reference: Designer Logo Buttons book pg.48

Contributor: Ronnie Kauk

Button Specs

• Material:
  • 10-0 METALS
• Usage:
  • 25-3 Designer
    • 25-3.2 Logo/Brand name
      • 25-3.2.2 Initials
      • 25-3.2.3 Name