rodin as his moneymaker basically for the previous 20 years.t very good for a marriage obviously. condÉ decided in 1904 that he was going to set out on his own. yes bob collier was paying him more money than he was worth, there was no doubt about it, 40,000 in those days was close to $1 million but essentially he decided he was going to take the plunge into women's fashion. you say, why women's fashion? is that a national magazine and they are starting to go into the niche markets. condÉ had decided that women's fashion was going to be key to the changing role of women. up until now women's fashions in terms of the clothing that would be put into patterns had two distinct shortcomings. the first was all patterns were giveaways alongside fabrics. the second which was even more incredible was the fact that there was only one size. condÉ decided the new woman has many sizes. i'm going to empower her. i'm going to empower women to make their own clothing and all the sizes that they come in and they should discard their corsets, enjoy life and be wo