Obituary: Elzbieta Rosenwerth, Polish émigré who pioneered haute couture in SA

Elzbieta Rosenwerth, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 91, was the doyenne of the South African fashion industry. When she arrived in Cape Town from war-torn Europe in 1952 with a sewing machine and a suitcase, there was little fashion and barely a fashion industry in the country.There was certainly no such thing as high fashion.