Born Magdalena Schramm--she changed her first name when she went into the fashion business, and her last when she married Morgan Fauth, who was a very well-regarded designer in his own right, laboring prodigiously for the David Crystal label.
Before really starting out on her own, Madeleine designed for twelve years at Arkay, a house where juniors were queen; before that, the junior department at the International Dress Company, and before THAT, a short-lived attempt on her own under the Valroy label.
Her fashion outlook (and her personal look, too) was a lot like that of Anne Fogarty. Both were pretty, petite women with a passion for crinolines and was a firm believer in dressing to please men: "It is the prime duty of women to look pretty" she opined, although she allowed that they should wear what was becoming to them individually rather than slavishly following fashion. But women should allow men to be the ultimate judges, she felt, if only so that "men would [then] not make fun of their hats!"
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