 Uneasy about the looming Nazi threat, the Radleys departed Paris for Argentina, making a pit stop in New York, in 1936.Trigère did not foresee remaining in the United States, let alone starting her own business, when she arrived in Manhattan on December 24, 1936.In a 1984 interview, she said of this time in her life “I was really a little housewife with two small children and I had a husband who really didn’t want his wife to work."