doyenne

Shares in Parisian handbag doyenne Hermes fell sharply last week after it booked a sales drop the company blamed partly on fewer Middle Eastern travelers splurging in its European boutiques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Many of them were barely in school when the doyenne of Paris fashion took over menswear at Hermes in 1988 with instructions from then company boss Jean-Louis Dumas to run it "like your small company".

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

And there will be several books too, one of them co-authored by Helen Garner, a doyenne of modern Australian literature.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

Surely some people will recoil at my likening Meghan’s efforts to those of Queen Martha, doyenne of gracious living and doing everything yourself.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025

We have thought it our duty therefore to interview the celebrated Mrs. Bloggins, the doyenne of the Corps of Bed-makers of Trinity College.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 by Various

Put drag queens on his runway next to Park Avenue doyennes.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

Expect all the Fellowes tropes — sharp-tongued society doyennes, squandered family fortunes, nouveau-riche strivers — delivered with an American accent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2022

Radziwill’s world was inhabited by doyennes of high society, artistic celebrities, fashion moguls and wealthy, prominent husbands - including one whose royal status made her a real-life princess.

From Reuters ● Feb. 16, 2019

And it watched its customers transform from rich wives and social doyennes into career women, bosses and power brokers.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2016

The dachshund's supporters seem similarly eager to dispel the notion that the low-slung dogs are merely accessories of Park Avenue doyennes.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2012