Micol fontana biography for kids
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Fontana Sisters
Zoe (1911–1979), Micol (b. 1913), and Giovanna (b.
Micol fontana biography for kids
1915) Fontana were born in Traversetolo, near Parma, Italy. They learned sewing and tailoring from their mother, Amabile Fontana, who opened her own tailor shop in 1907. The three sisters became apprentices as soon as they were old enough to handle needles and scissors.
Legend has it that the work was hard and unpaid and that the sisters worked Saturdays and Sundays.
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Despite the long hours, the sisters' memories of childhood are happy ones, and they look back with fondness on the years spent in the large, quiet house surrounded by greenery. Micol writes often of her childhood experiences in her memoir, Specchio a tre luci. "We were never alone, but always accompanied by our mother's love" (p.
20).
Apprenticeships
In the 1930s Zoe, the eldest of the three, left Traversetolo to become an apprentice in Milan. Micol joined her there, while Giovanna remained in the countryside. Shortly after her marriage in 1934, Zo