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Nancy (Nadia) E. Prokopiy Ukrainian Immigrant in the 1934 began as an expert seamstress for high quality mink coats, and became a costume designer for top theatres through Argentina including the famed Teatro Colon. Moving to the United States, she designed costumes for Metropolitan Opera in Los Angeles, with notable designs for “Rigoletto” and also for ballet and dance companies including for the iconic “Swan Lake”. Her business acumen led to ownership of Fedora, a critically acclaimed European Cuisine restaurant. She began collecting Ukrainian artifacts in 1977 for the proposed of display in a future, at Ukrainian museum.  Nadia Prokopiy has been the recipient of special museum items from Kiev Museum and Lvov Cultural Museum in Ukraine, thanks to her special relationships with their curators accepting Donation of art culture of 14^th-19^th century

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