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Clark, Margaret
US.20230815.001 · Person

Parsons-trained Margaret Clark married shoe designer Jerry Miller and in the early 1950's they set up their own company, the Margaret Clark Design Studio. In 1954, the two founded their own wholesaling shoe company, Shoe Biz, selling Clark's design under the label "Margaret Jerrold." Other brand names included Pancaldi (Walter Steiger, principle designer) Edouard Jerrold (Jann Johnson, principle designer) and Shoe Strings (Donald Hubbard, principle designer). Margaret Jerrold shoes were known for their high style and fine workmanship. In 1960, her designs appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar. Margaret, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma School of Fine Arts and Parsons School of Design designed shoes that were sold in Lord & Taylor, Saks, Nordstrom's and Nieman-Marcus. In 1960, and in 1961 she received the National Shoe Retailers Award and in 1964 the Nieman-Marcus award. In 1964 she retired due to poor health.

Venus de Milo
US.20200530.006 · [non-DACS actor] · 150 BCE

The Venus de Milo is a statue of a goddess found on the island of Melos (Milos in modern Greek) in 1820. The goddess is Aphrodite, who is often portrayed half-naked or the sea godddess Amphitrite, who was possibly venerated on Melos. The statue reflects sculptural research during the Hellenistic Period - spiral composition, the positioning in space, and the drapery over the hips.

Minsker, Ethan H., 1970-
US.20220721.001 · Person · 1970-

Ethan Minsker is an artist, filmmaker, writer, publisher, and zine creator living in the Lower East side of Manhattan, New York. His art--which he labels "brat art" or "punk art"--includes painting, sculpture, film, books and performance art. Minsker has published three books and is the creator and editor of the Psycho Moto Zine. His work spans 1990 to 2021 and has been featured in multiple film and art festivals. Graduating from the School of Visual Arts with a degree in Film and a master's degree in Media from the New School, Ethan has produced nine films. He is a founder of the Antagonist Art Movement and currently a board member of Citizens for the Arts.; both organizations aim to foster and promote emerging artists.

New York Times Company
US.20220414.034 · Corporate body · 1851-

The New York Times, morning daily newspaper published in New York City, long the newspaper of record in the United States and one of the world’s great newspapers. Its strength is in its editorial excellence; it has never been the largest newspaper in terms of circulation.

The Times was established in 1851 as a penny paper that would avoid sensationalism and report the news in a restrained and objective fashion. It enjoyed early success as its editors set a pattern for the future by appealing to a cultured, intellectual readership instead of a mass audience. But its high moral tone was no asset in the heated competition of other papers for readers in New York City. Despite price increases, the Times was losing $1,000 a week when Adolph Simon Ochs bought it in 1896.

Ochs built the Times into an internationally respected daily. Aided by an editor he hired away from the New York Sun, Carr Van Anda, Ochs placed greater stress than ever on full reporting of the news of the day, maintained and emphasized existing good coverage of international news, eliminated fiction from the paper, added a Sunday magazine section, and reduced the paper’s newsstand price back to a penny. The paper’s imaginative and risky exploitation of all available resources to report every aspect of the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 greatly enhanced its prestige. In its coverage of two world wars the Times continued to enhance its reputation for excellence in world news.

In 1971 the Times became the centre of controversy when it published a series of reports based on the “Pentagon Papers,” a secret government study of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War that had been covertly given to the Times by government officials. The U.S. Supreme Court found that the publication was protected by the freedom-of-the-press clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The publication of the “Pentagon Papers” brought the Times a Pulitzer Prize in 1972, and by the early 21st century the paper had won more than 120 Pulitzers (including citations), considerably more than any other news organization. Later in the 1970s the paper, under Adolph Ochs’s grandson, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, introduced sweeping changes in the organization of the newspaper and its staff and brought out a national edition transmitted by satellite to regional printing plants.

The Times continued to utilize technology to expand its circulation, launching an online edition in 1995 and employing colour photography in its print edition in 1997. The publication introduced a subscription service called TimesSelect in 2005 and charged subscribers for access to portions of its online edition, but the program was discontinued two years later, and all news, editorial columns, and much of its archival content was opened to the public. In 2006 the Times launched an electronic version, the Times Reader, which allowed subscribers to download the current print edition. The following year the publication relocated to the newly constructed New York Times Building in Manhattan. Soon thereafter it began—like many industry publications—to struggle to redefine its role in the face of free Internet content. In 2011 the Times instituted a subscription plan for its digital edition that limited free access to content.

Pomerantz, Fred
US.20180824.001 · Person · 1903-1986

Fred Pomerantz, born in New York City in 1903, started working before the age of 11 for a firm manufacturing coats and suits. Before the age of 20 he had gone into business with a brother. Around the age of 31, he retired temporarily from the apparel business and went to California to engage in various business enterprises, which were largely unsuccessful. He returned to New York and the apparel industry, and in 1938 he launched Leslie Fay, Inc., naming the business after his daughter. In 1955, his son John joined the firm, setting up and running Joan Leslie, Inc. In 1972, John Pomerantz became the President of the parent company and Fred Pomerantz became the Chairman. Fred Pomerantz retired in 1982, and passed away in 1986. Mr. Pomerantz served on the Board of Directors of the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries from 1967-78. After his death, the Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center building was named for him in recognition of a donation by his son, John J. Pomerantz, a former member of Fashion Institute of Technology’s Board of Trustees and foundation.

Bernay, Beryl
US.NNFIT.SC.2023080101 · Person · 1926-2020

Born Beryl Bernstein in Brooklyn, NY in 1926 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Beryl's father changed the family's last name to Berney when she was a child. She later changed the spelling to Bernay and went on to study art and photography at Cooper Union and The Art Students League as well as fashion design at the Fashion Academy in New York City. A stint producing children's television during the 1950s and early 1960s paralleled her working as an actor on Broadway. During the 1960s and 70s, she worked as an international journalist, reporting for the United Nations, NPR, ABC, NBC, The New York Times, Time and Newsweek. Throughout her life, she continued to make an exhibition artwork and appeared on the stage and screen. Bernay died in March 2020 in Manhattan at the age of 94 due to complications induced by the COVID-19 virus.

Porges, Lucie, 1926-2011
US.NNFIT.SC.2023072601 · Person · 1926-2011

Born in 1926, Lucie Porges and her family fled their homeland of Vienna, Austria in 1938 to escape World War II. Settling in Switzerland in 1942, by 1945 Lucie Porges was studying drawing at École des Beaux-Arts. In 1948 she moved to Paris to work under couturiers such as Maggy Rouff. She was also creating illustrations for the fashion magazine L’Art et la mode. In 1951 she moved to New York City with her fiancé the cartoonist Paul Peter Porges. It was here that she connected with fashion designer Pauline Trigère, who would be her associate for 43 years. Porges not only contributed sketches but she also organized shows, booked models and chose photographers. The two women would travel to Europe yearly to purchase fabrics for their collections. The different styles of Pauline Trigère and Lucie Porges worked together to create the new distinct American mode influenced by European designs, combining more casual clothes with elevated eveningwear. After the closure of Pauline Trigère's fashion house in 1994 Lucie Porges worked as a teacher at Parsons, where she taught a class titled “Fashion Atelier” for 14 years. In 2000 depictions of her work and early sketches were featured alongside cartoons by her husband in an exhibition in Vienna entitled “Lucie and Paul Peter Porges: Style and Humor.” At first hesitant to exhibit in Vienna, she concluded: “I feel this show is like rounding out the circle. A way of showing them we won.'' Lucie Porges died in 2011 at the age of 85.

Blotta, Anthony
US.20230719.003 · Person · 1888 - 1971 September

This bio is largely taken from a New York Times obituary:

Born in southern Italy, Mr. Blotta began drawing at the age of 3, and then was sent to instructors. His family wanted him to study for the priesthood, but his answer was to start modeling with clay. His parents disciplined him at 14 by sending him to the United States with a tutor. Attracted by New York, he sent his tutor home and stayed on. Deciding to show his parents he could make good on his own, Mr. Blotta became an apprentice in a dress house. He was 20 years old and foreman of a large firm's work room when he tried his hand at designing. His design drew attention and he opened his own establishment in 1919.

In the early nineteen‐thirties, he designed a pantsuit for Marlene Dietrich, long before such apparel became generally fashionable for women. In 1962, he introduced a collection manufactured in Italy, called Blotta International. He had built a factory In Praia‐a Mare, a town in his native Calabria, to promote industry in the depressed southern regions of the country. “I wanted to help the people there,” he said, “and besides you can't get tailors here.”

Mr. Blotta closed his New York factory at 498 Seventh Avenue several years prior to his death, but continued actively as a consultant in design. Blotta passed away from a heart attack at age 83 while living at the New York Athletic Club.

Talley, André Leon
US.20230719.002 · Person · 1948 October 16 – 2022 January 18

"André Leon Talley was an American fashion journalist, stylist, creative director, and editor-at-large of Vogue magazine. He was the magazine's fashion news director from 1983 to 1987, its first African-American male creative director from 1988 to 1995, and then its editor-at-large from 1998 to 2013. Often regarded as a fashion icon, he was known for supporting emerging designers and advocating for diversity in the fashion industry while the capes, kaftans, and robes he wore became his trademark look. Talley also served on the judging panel for America's Next Top Model.

"He also authored three books, including the memoir The Chiffon Trenches, which landed on The New York Times Best Seller list and co-authored a book with Richard Bernstein. Talley was the editor-at-large of Numéro Russia in 2013, before resigning due to anti-LGBT laws in Russia. He additionally worked stints with Andy Warhol at Interview, Women's Wear Daily, W, Ebony and The New York Times. He once served as a stylist for United States President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during their time in the White House; as well as styling Melania Trump for her 2005 wedding to Donald Trump.

"In 2020, France awarded him the Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres honor for arts and letters; and the following year he received the North Carolina Award for his role in literature. He was featured in the documentaries The First Monday in May and The September Issue, and was the subject of the documentary The Gospel According to André, directed by Kate Novack." Wikipedia

Rhodes, Zandra, 1940-
US.20201214.55 · Person · 1940-

"Zandra Rhodes has been a figurehead of British fashion since 1969, the year in which she founded her eponymous design house. Having begun her career as a textile designer before turning to fashion design, Rhodes's designs display a fascination with printed textiles; she is famous for her embroidered, beaded, and often hand-painted chiffons, and overtly theatrical clothes. Being placed amid a London fashion environment that appreciated the eccentric, and with brand advocates such as Natalie Wood, Liza Minnelli, and Princesses Anne and Margaret, Rhodes gained a committed following throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. The designer founded London’s Fashion and Textile Museum in 2003, and was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2014."

Earley, Donald
US.20180702.090 · Person

Donald Earley is an American artist and fashion illustrator. He has worked with many well known companies, including Calvin Klein, Bonwit Teller, Yves St. Laurent, the New York Times, and Bill Blass. In addition to his freelance work, Earley has taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, and, most recently, VCUarts Qatar. Earley holds a degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Hawes, Elizabeth, 1903-1971
US.20190131-001 · Person · 1903-1971

Elizabeth Hawes was an American fashion designer and outspoken fashion industry critic. Hawes was a champion of the ready to wear industry and people's right to have the clothes they desired, rather than what was specified as "fashionable." These ideas are encapsulated in her 1938 book Fashion Is Spinach. Hawes began her career as a dress copier in Paris in 1925. In 1926, after the garment firm she worked for closed, she began work as a fashion sketcher. Returning to New York in 1928, and began to produce ready-to-wear copies of French designs with Rosemary Harden for their company, Hawes-Harden. After Harden sold her portion of the company to her, Hawes began to work on designs of her own. In 1931, she became the first non-French designer to show at the Paris Spring Fashion Shows, garnering her a great deal of media attention. In 1935, she showed her designs in Moscow, the first display of Western Fashion there since the Russian Revolution of 1917. In 1937, she presented an all-male fashion show of her own brightly colored designs, followed in 1939 by the publication of another book, Men Can Take It. Throughout her career, she became one of the first American designers to establish their reputation outside of the Parisian haute couture model. In addition to her work in the fashion industry, she was an author, union organizer, champion of gender equality, and political activist.

Mr. Daren
US.20230613.001 · Person · 1923-1984

Shortly after attending the Wolfe School of Costume Designing in Los Angeles in 1941, Daren Pierce spent time serving in the US armed forces, first in Farragut, Idaho and later at the Naval Training Station on Yerba Buena Island, just off of San Francisco, where he was worked in the Office of Discipline. In his spare time, Pierce designed entire seasonal collections of day, college, evening and bridal wear, sketching in pencil, watercolor and marker. In 1945 after the completion of his wartime duties Pierce presented his work to Dorothy Liebes and she hired him as a textile designer. In the early 1950s, Pierce was employed by the interior and industrial design firm William Pahlmann Associates in New York City, and he became frequently sought out by the press as an authority on interior design. By the 1960s Pierce had been elected President of the American Institute of Decorators, and in this capacity he led design professionals and enthusiasts on tours to study the aesthetics of cultures abroad. In 1965, Pierce, who by now often went simply as “Mr. Daren,” challenged traditional gender roles by opening a high-end needlepoint shop, Woolworks, on Madison Avenue. He went on to publish four books he co-authored on the subjects of needlepoint and the art of mixed cocktails. At 61 years old, Pierce died of cardiac arrest on Tuesday, January 29, 1984.

Dietsch, Samuel
US.20190520.002 · Person

Samuel Dietsch was acting president of the Fashion Institute of Technology briefly in 1953 and again in 1965.

Halston, 1932-1990
US.20190413.003 · Person · 1932-1990

Born Roy Halston Frowick in 1932 in Des Moines, Iowa, the fashion designer who was better known as simply 'Halston' moved to Chicago in 1952 where he took a job as a window dresser for the Carson Pirie Scott department store. In 1958, he moved to New York to work for the preeminent milliner Lilly Daché before taking a job designing millinery for Bergdorf Goodman. In 1966, Bergdorf Goodman sponsored Halston's first ready-to-wear clothing line which had its own boutique within the store. He left Bergdorf in 1967 and launched his own line the following year, which was an immediate success. He won COTY Awards in 1969, 1971, and 1972. In 1973, Halston signed licensing deals with Norton Simon. Halston and menswear lines were launched in 1975.

During this period, Halston was at the epicenter of a glittering social circle, frequently attending the Studio54 night club beginning in 1977 with Andy Warhol, Liza Minelli, Mick and Bianca Jagger, and his coterie of models dubbed "The Halstonettes."

Halston diffusion lines were launched with J.C. Penny's in 1983 and the following year, Halston unsuccessfully attempted to buy his company back from Norton Simon; Halston Originals closes in 1985 and the following year Halston learned that he was HIV positive. Halston passed away from AIDS-related complications in 1990.

Romano, Juliette
US.20201021.003 · Person

Juliette Romano is a professor in the Career and Internship Center at the Fashion Institute of Technology and was the president of the United College Employees of FIT/SUNY in the early 2000s. She was a member of the UCE/FIT negotiating committee and also served as assistant secretary of the executive committee. She served as vice president for contracts and grievances for seven years, and then became the local's executive vice president. Juliette has served as president of her local since 2005.

Phillips, Lawrence S.
US.20210314.50 · Person

Lawrence S. Phillips was a longtime executive with Phillips-Van Heusen, his family's clothing company. He was also a founder of the American Jewish World Service, an organization dedicated to ending poverty and promoting human rights.

Natori, Josie Cruz
US.20200201.019 · Person · 1947 May 9 -

Josie Natori is a Filipino-American fashion designer espeicially known for her sleep and loungewear brand, The Natori Company.

Goodman, Shirley, 1915-1991
US.20190730.004 · Person · 1915-1991

Shirley Goodman came to the college in 1949 to help draft the legislation making FIT part of the SUNY system. She was a key figure in the college’s development and served for many years as the executive vice president of FIT as well as the executive director of FIT’s Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries (now the FIT Foundation) until her death in 1991.

US.20191207.001 · Corporate body · 1948-

"The Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH) was founded by historian and journalist Allan Nevins in 1948 and is credited with launching the establishment of oral history archives internationally. At over 10,000 interviews, the Oral History Archives is one of the largest oral history collections in the United States. The Oral History Archives at Columbia is housed at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library in Butler Library and is open to all." https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/ccoh.html

Calvin Klein, Inc.
US.20181012-020 · Corporate body · 1968 (date of establishment)
Brooklyn Museum
US.20220401.003 · Corporate body · 1897-

The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. Its roots extend back to 1823 and the founding of the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library to educate young tradesmen (Walt Whitman would later become one of its librarians). First established in Brooklyn Heights, the Library moved into rooms in the Brooklyn Lyceum building on Washington Street in 1841. Two years later, the Lyceum and the Library combined to form the Brooklyn Institute, offering important early exhibitions of painting and sculpture in addition to lectures on subjects as diverse as geology and abolitionism. The Institute announced plans to establish a permanent gallery of fine arts in 1846.

By 1890, Institute leaders had determined to build a grand new structure devoted jointly to the fine arts and the natural sciences; the reorganized Institute was then renamed the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the forebear of the Brooklyn Museum. The original design of the new museum building, from 1893, by the architects McKim, Mead & White was meant to house myriad educational and research activities in addition to the growing collections. The ambitious building plan, had it been fully realized, would have produced the largest single museum structure in the world. Indeed, so broad was the institution’s overall mandate that the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum would remain divisions of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences until they became independent entities in the 1970s.

Potok, Anna, 1897-1987
US.20201020.008 · Person · 1897-1987

Anna Potok, born in Warsaw, was a co-founder of Maximilian Furs, dressing clients such as Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diana Ross, and Sophia Loren. Potok was best know for her use of sumptuous furs, especially sable, chinchilla, mink, broadtail and ermine. She passed away of heart failure in 1987.

Creed, Charles
US.20180927-009 · Person · 1909-1966

Charles Creed (1909-1966) was a British fashion designer. Born into a family of longstanding, prominent tailors in French couture, Creed founded his own label in 1946. Creed was also the first elected member of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers. Although the Creed's couture house closed in 1966, the Creed family continues to operate the French perfum house, Creed.

Ely, Richard
US.20180702.092 · Person · 1928-2009

Richard Ely was an American Fashion Illustrator. During the 1960s and 1970s, Ely produced illustrations for Saks Fifth Avenue and important fashion publications. In addition to his work as an illustrator, Ely taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

David, Jules, 1808-1892
US.20190516.003 · Person · 1808-1892

Jules David (1808 - 1892) was a French painter, book illustrator and lithographer. He is best remembered for his fashion plates. He began his career in 1824. David was the first to use contemporary backgrounds in fashion plate illustrations.

Kapp, Anneliese
US.20201014.003 · Person · 1922-2009

Anneliese Kapp was born in Germany in 1922 and immigrated to New York in 1938. Kapp became a prominent fashion illustrator counting Bloomingdale's, Bally Shoes and Lacoste as clients. Her work regularly appeared in Women's Wear Daily and The New York Times.

Brown, Joyce F.
US.20180718.001 · Person · 1947 July 7 (date of birth)

Dr. Joyce F. Brown is president of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), a specialized college of art and design, business and technology of the State University of New York (SUNY). Appointed in 1998, she is the college’s sixth president.

Dr. Brown, a highly regarded educator and academic administrator, has had over 35 years experience in public higher education. She held a number of senior administrative posts at the City University of New York (CUNY) before arriving at FIT, including acting president of Bernard Baruch College and vice chancellor of the university. Prior to her appointment at FIT, she was professor of clinical psychology at the Graduate School and University Center of CUNY, where she is currently professor emerita. Dr. Brown also served as a New York City deputy mayor for public and community affairs during the David Dinkins administration.

At FIT, Dr. Brown has led an ambitious, unprecedented multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative coordinating strategic and investment planning that has transformed the college. She has built faculty ranks, increased technology, improved student services, enhanced the campus with new and renovated facilities, and invigorated its culture with ground-breaking initiatives in diversity and sustainability. In widely expanding the curriculum, she has added innovative new programs, interdisciplinary minors and raised the profile of the liberal arts. FIT serves 10,000 full and part-time students with a faculty and staff of more than 1,700. Dr. Brown is FIT’s first woman and first African-American president.

Throughout her career, Dr. Brown has been a strong advocate for higher education and has demonstrated a sophisticated knowledge of the many communities that make up New York. She directed numerous special initiatives for CUNY, including the Urban Summit of Big City Mayors, as well as collaborations between the New York City Board of Education and the university which focused on improving academic preparation and retention in the secondary schools. In addition, she created and directed programs with the government of South Africa, including the Professional Development Program—an effort inspired by Nelson Mandela—designed to prepare black South Africans for key positions in business and industry.

Active in numerous community, civic and professional organizations, Dr. Brown also serves as president of The FIT Foundation, an advisory and support body to FIT. She is currently a director of the Ralph Lauren Corporation and a member of the New York Economic Club’s Board of Trustees. She is also a Clean Revolution Ambassador for The Climate Group. In addition, she has served on state-wide commissions and task forces on the black family, child care and domestic violence. She has been honored by numerous educational, cultural and civic organizations including New York University, Marymount College, Clark Atlanta University, The Town Hall, Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Brown earned her doctorate and master’s degree in counseling psychology from New York University and her bachelor’s degree from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, where she served as a trustee from 1994 to 2000. She also received a certificate from the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University.

Klare, Mildred
US.20230525.017 · Person

Mildred Klare is a buyer who worked with Maurice Rentner

Stewart & Company
US.20230525.017 · Corporate body · early twentieth century

Dress business from the early twentieth century.

Frederic L. Milton (firm)
US.20230525.015 · Corporate body · 1940?-1959? (active)

Frederic L. Milton was a prominent New York-based sketch agency during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1955, the company was sued by the French fashion houses Dior, Lanvin, Fath and Patou for $1,350,000 in a claim of "style piracy, trademark infringement and unfair competition," according to the New York Times. As of August 1959, the suit was still pending in New York Supreme Court.

US.20230525.014 · Person · 1918-1990

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was a highly successful American musician of the 20th century. He composed many different styles of music for the opera, symphony, Broadway, and the ballet. At the age of 40, Bernstein became the youngest music director hired by the New York Philharmonic. He was awarded 23 Grammy awards, 10 Emmys, and a Tony Award, all in the competitive categories. In addition to his work in music, Bernstein was a celebrated humanitarian.

Columbia University
US.20230525.013 · Corporate body · 1754-

Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. Samuel Johnson held the first classes in July, 1754. The school was then located in lower Manhattan. The school closed down during the American Revolution. A year after the war ended, in 1784, the school reopened with a new name; Columbia. The school continued to grow throughout the 19th century. The school moved uptown to 49th Street and Madison Avenue in 1857. Forty years later, the campus was once again moved, this time to its current location in Morningside Heights, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The campus was designed by McKim, Mead, and White, the renowned turn-of-the-century architectural firm. In the 20th century, Columbia became a renowned institution for higher learning, with many bright minds calling the school home. The school has kept this reputation into the 21st century.

Garofalo, Joseph
US.20230525.011 · Person · 1933?-2016

Joseph Garofalo was a professor of textile science at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC for over 40 years. He was also a trustee and treasurer of the Federal Teachers' Credit Union, as well as treasurer of the United Federation of Teachers.

Gerber Garment Technology
US.20230525.010 · Corporate body · 1967-

Gerber Garment Technology is credited with being one of the leaders in automated apparel technology. H. Joseph Gerber introduced the Gerber Cutter System 70 which was one of the first automated textile innovations. A year later, in 1968, Gerber formed Gerber Garment Technology. Gerber introduced several more advancements in automated apparel technology including, cutters, pattern designers, and automated sewing machines. In 1998, the name of the company was changed to Gerber Technology to better represent their role outside of the apparel industry in automated production.

Gimbel, Adam
US.20230525.009 · Person · 1817-1896

Born to a Bavarian family in 1817, Gimbel immigrated to the United States in 1833. Working as a ship hand to pay for the voyage, he settled in New Orleans where he found employment as a dock worker. Paying attention to the various pettlers that sold their wares along the coast, Gimbel began to save his earnings to purchase an inventory of needles, thread, and cloth. After amassing an inventory he headed north along the Mississippi River. After five years of selling his wares along the river, he was able to afford a horse and cart to more easily sell his goods and increase the variety of his inventory. In 1842, Gimbel arrived in Vincennes, Indiana where his sales were so successful he decided to settle in the town and purchased a small house which would serve as his home and storefront named The Palace of Trade. The store continued to increase its inventory and sold all kinds of goods including: nails, gunpowder, harnesses, shawls, shows, cloth, and pelts. In 1869 he expanded his business by opening a store in Danville, Illinois. In 1887, after selling his store in Vincennes, Gimbel moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he purchased a four-story store on the corner of Wisconsin and Grand. The Gimbels store became the largest dry goods vendor in the city, with its own elevator and 40-75 salespeople. In 1894, the Gimbel Brothers Company expanded by purchasing another location in Philadelphia. Adam Gimbel died two years later in 1896 at the age of 79.

Home Furnishings News
US.20230525.008 · Corporate body

Home Furnishings News (HFN) is an online trend forecasting publication for home furnishing and interior decorating. It is used by a variety of business including: departments stores, specialty retailers, mass merchandisers, online retailers, wholesale clubs and discounters. HFN's up-scale, editorial division focuses on market leaders, innovators and disruptors, and the quest for total home omnichannel retailing.

Jensen, Dorothy
US.20230525.007 · Person

Dorothy Jensen designed youth sportswear from around 1950- 1970 for companies including Johnston, Inc. and Jonathan Logan. During the 1950s and 1960s, she taught the Doris Anderson Simplified System of Sewing and Styling at Gimbel’s department stores. She was a former pupil of Ms. Anderson.

Barneys New York
US.20230525.005 · Corporate body · 1923-2019

Barneys New York was founded in 1923 by Barney Pressman in New York City as a men's clothing store. Barney's son, Fred, transformed the store into a luxury retail destination by introducing designers such as Hubert de Givenchy and Pierre Cardin to their customers. Barneys introduced women's clothing and accessories to their stock in the 1970s. The company filed for bankruptcy in the mid-1990s. Since then, they've undergone a series of owners. In 2019 Barneys shuttered for good, with its name being licensed by Saks Fifth Avenue.