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Adams, Maud
US.20220318.94 · Persona · 1945 February 12-

Maud Adams is a Swedish actress and model best known for her roles as a Bond Girl in the James Bond films 'The Man With the Golden Gun' and 'Octopussy.' Adams also made a third appearance in a Bond film, 'A View To a Kill,' as an extra.

Abboud, Joseph
US.20200201.016 · Persona · 1950-

Boston-born menswear designer Joseph Abboud studied Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris before returning to his hometown in the late 1960s to become a menswear buyer for local boutiques. In 1981, he joined Ralph Lauren as a designer and launched his own eponymously named menswear line in late 1986, which retailed at high-end department stores including Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue. Abboud was awarded the CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year in 1989 and 1990, and in 2012, he became the Chief Creative Director of Men's Warehouse. His autobiography Threads: My Life Behind the Seams of High-Stakes World of Fashion was published in 2004.

A. Beller & Co.
US.20191212.001 · Entidad colectiva · 1890-1931

A. Beller & Co. was a cloak and suit manufacturer established in 1890 by Abraham Beller. The A. Beller & Co. adaptions of imported models as well as the company's own original designs were of the highest quality and retailed at high-end department stores. The company's product was considered the gold standard for American manufacturers, and the company's executives, Abraham Beller and Max Meyer, were widely respected within the industry. The company shuttered its doors in 1931 amid the Great Depression.

Mello, Dawn
US.20181026-007 · Persona

Dawn Mello joined Berdorf Goodman in 1975 as vice president of fashion. She was successful in reinvigorating the conservative store and became president in 1984. She left her post in 1989 to work for the floundering Italian fashion house Gucci, though she returned to her post as president in 1994.

Employee Assistance Program
US.20220930.001 · Entidad colectiva

The FIT/UCE Employee Assistance Program is a jointly sponsored labor management program that serves members of the UCE of FIT union at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Jacobs, Melvin
US.20220910.001 · Persona

Melvin Jacobs started his career as an assistant in the bargain basement at Bloomingdale's. He rose through the ranks of merchants at Bloomingdale's, ultimately becoming a senior vice president and general merchandise manager of the chain during his 25 years at the store. In 1972, he was appointed president of Burdine's, a Florida-based department store chain owned by Federated Department Stores Inc. Federated later brought him into its corporate offices in Cincinnati as a vice chairman, but in 1982 he moved to join Saks Fifth Avenue as its chairman and chief executive. Just before he retired, Jacobs had joined the board of QVC Network Inc. While retired, he started a retailing and investment company called Retail Options Inc. with Kenneth Walker and the former president of the Limited Stores, Verna Gibson.

Berta, Bill
US.20220910.005 · Persona

Former senior vice president and sales promotion director for Saks Fifth Avenue, William (Bill) was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, and started taking art classes at Carnegie Tech of Pittsburgh at a young age through high school. He moved on to attend the Art Institute in Chicago majoring in Advertising design, and the University of Chicago majoring in English. After graduating Bill held jobs in small advertising firms and moved on to be the fashion art director at Macy’s. Throughout his career, he has worked for Revlon, Channel, Maidenform, and Hertz to name a few. At one point he left the retail industry and started his own small agency that included clients such as Bloomingdale’s for a few years, finally moving on to Saks Fifth Avenue.

O'Hagan, Helen
US.20220910.006 · Persona

Helen O’Hagan was the vice president and director of public relations and special events at Saks Fifth Avenue. Part of her job duties involved staging fashion shows, organizing special SFA USA charity events: SAKS Spotlights top American Designs, and assisted with the introduction of top designers, and traveled to Europe to cover ready-to-wear and culture collections. She would make personal appearances with designers, working with small launches, and opening new stores. Retiring in 1994 she directed the opening of 47 Saks Fifth Avenue stores.

Lucas, William
US.20220910.007 · Persona

Saks Fifth Avenue executive.

Mayar, Sid
US.20220910.008 · Persona

Sidney Mayer was born in 1928 in Brooklyn, NY and started as a trainee at Saks Fifth Avenue in 1950 right after graduating from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He spent his entire career at the store. Mayer became a men's clothing buyer in the late 1950s and rose to general merchandise manager of men's and boy's wear, and children's in the mid-1970s. He subsequently became a general merchandise manager for women's accessories, shoes, lingerie and gifts. Later he became the first vice president named for men’s clothing at the company and ultimately rose to senior vice president. During his time at the retailer, Mayer was the first to give Ralph Lauren a shop at Saks at a time when designer boutiques were few and far between. He traveled the world buying fabrics for the company’s private-label offerings and helped build the store’s men’s and boys’ departments as well as its men’s shoe area. In the mid-1980s, he became a senior vice president and general merchandise manager for merchandise planning and liquidation.

Wechsler, Norman
US.20220910.009 · Persona

Born and raised in New York City Norman Wechsler's career started at Saks Fifth Avenue as an executive trainee in the 1930s, later becoming president in the 1970s. In between, working as a trainee and becoming president he worked at other retail organizations including I. Magnin, Hudson’s in Detroit, Weinstock in Sacramento, and Robinson’s in Los Angeles.

Suslow, Robert
US.20220910.004 · Persona · -1998

Robert Suslow was a retail executive running various retail chains including Ohrbach, Famous-Bar, BATUS Retail Group, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Calvin Klein throughout his career. Beginning at Bloomingdale's, Suslow started at the bottom and worked his way up to managerial and executive positions.

Russo Enders, Miriam
US.NNFIT.SC.20220923.01 · Persona

Miriam Russo Enders was an art professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology from 1961 to 1987. She developed the Semester Abroad Program in partnership with the Winchester School of Art in England, which inspired the current international study programs at FIT. She contributed designs for Countess Mara, Van Cleef and Arpels, and Alfred Auerbach Associates.

Duff Gordon, Lucy, Lady
US.20180702.033 · Persona · 1863-1935

Born Lucile Christiana Sutherland in 1863, Lady Duff Gordon was raised by Canadian Parents in London, England. Following a childhood focused around dolls and dresses, Lucile designed women's wear as Mrs. James Wallace from 1895 - 1897. She began a successful dressmaking business shortly after the divorce from her first husband. This business proved to be successful, and evolved into Maison Lucile in 1887, distinguished for its colorful fabric and whimsical, feminine designs as well as its celebrity clientele. In 1900 she married Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, thus changing her name and title as clothing coutier. While owning and operating Maison Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon also wrote fashion columns for the Hearst Papers and other notable fashion magazines. She opened branches of Lucile in New York in 1910, Paris in 1912, and Chicago in 1915. She is recognized her stature as the first British fashion designer to use live models during fashion shows, and, after establishing her name as one of the foremost fashion designers, designed costume for film and theatre. Such productions include costume designs for the British premier of the Franz Lehar Opera, the film The Merry Widow (1907), and for the Hollywood feature Way Down East (1920). She is most credited for her collaboration with the Ziegfeld Follies from 1915 - 1921, some sketches of which appear in this collection. Financial strain prompted her to close her design house in 1923, though she continued to work as a theatrical designer until 1925. Lady Duff Gordon passed away on April 20, 1935 at the age of 71 of breast cancer in a nursing home in London.

British American Tobacco Company
US.20220621.001 · Entidad colectiva · 1902-

B.A.T Industries plc is the holding company for a group of companies that manufacture tobacco products, including international and domestic brands of cigarettes, and provide financial and insurance services. The Group operates in over 100 countries worldwide. https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1099Q:LN#xj4y7vzkg

BAT has diversified into various fields at different times in its history. Its U.S. retail division, BATUS Retail Group, acquired Gimbels, Kohl's, and Saks Fifth Avenue in the 1970s and Marshall Field's and its divisions in 1982. It purchased the United Kingdom retail chain Argos in 1979. The company sold Kohl's grocery stores to A&P in 1983. In 1986, BATUS sold the Kohl's department stores and two Marshall Field's divisions, The Crescent and Frederick & Nelson; BATUS closed Gimbels the same year, with many locations being absorbed by sister division Marshall Field's, as well as Allied Stores' Stern's and Pomeroy's divisions. In 1990, Dayton Hudson Corporation (now Target Corporation) purchased Marshall Field's, Dillard's purchased Ivey's (another Marshall Field's division), Investcorp S.A. purchased Saks Fifth Avenue, and Argos was demerged (Argos was acquired by previous parent company GUS plc in 1998). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_American_Tobacco

Office of Faculty Services
US.20180726.035 · Entidad colectiva

According to FIT's website, "The Office of Faculty Services is an administrative office dedicated to providing guidance and support to all full-time faculty in the areas of College policies and procedures. The office also manages the administration of the student evaluation of teaching effectiveness process."

Sloan, Alfred V. Jr.
US.20180801.001 · Persona · 1921 December 24-2018 July 27

Alfred V. Sloan, Jr. was born in New York City in 1921, and grew up in the Bronx in the same building where his father practiced medicine. After graduating from Townsend Harris High School in 1937 at age 15, he obtained his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in both History and English. In 1941, he joined the Air Force, and served overseas for several years during World War Two as a signalman. Around 1946, he returned to the United States, and found a job working for the well-established Strawbridge & Clothier in their New York offices. Simultaneously, he attended New York University on a part-time basis, earning a Master's of Science in Retailing in 1950, and a PhD in education in 1956, also from NYU. He then began a teaching job at SUNY Orange (Orange County Community College). After two years, he was recruited by FIT, and taught various business and marketing courses there for an impressive 58 years, until his retirement in December, 2016. Professor Sloan passed away on Friday, July 27, 2018.

Lauer, Izzy
US.20220606.003 · Persona

Designed Fenton First shoes for Saks Fifth Avenue.

Rossbach Jr., Jay H.
US.20220606.003 · Persona · -2014

Jay H. Rossbach, Jr., son of fashion designer Sophie Gimbel, was a graduate of the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass., and Brown University, class of '43. He joined Saks Fifth Avenue in New York in 1946 after service as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, retiring in 1976 after thirty years as Senior Vice President. Rossbach died on February 15, 2014.

Fenton Last
US.20220606.002 · Entidad colectiva · circa 1930s

Fenton Last was a shoe line sold at Saks Fifth Avenue and designed by Izzy Lauer.

Ball, Theodore H.
US.20220606.001 · Persona · -1970

Theodore H. Ball was Vice President and Merchandise Manager of Accessories at Saks Fifth Avenue for 37 years until his retirement in January 1970. He passed on December 18, 1975 at age 79.

Kawakubo, Rei, 1942-
US.20180702.046 · Persona · 1942-

Rei Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer. She is the founder of fashion label Comme des Garçons, established in 1973.

McQueen, Alexander, 1969-2010
US.20180711.022 · Persona · 1969-2010

Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer. McQueen got his start in the fashion industry at age 16, when he began working at Anderson & Sheppard in London, making suits for high profile politicians. He went on to work with Japanese designer Koji Tatsuno in London and then with Romeo Gigli in Italy. He attended fashion college Central Saint Martins from 1990 to 1992, where his master's thesis collection was purchased in entirety by stylist Isabelle Blow. He founded his own brand, Alexander McQueen in 1992 and opened his first boutique in 1999. In 1996, McQueen was named British Designer of the Year, and later that year took over as the head designer of Givenchy. He left Givenchy in 2001 to focus on expanding his own brand, including fragrances in 2003, a menswear collection in 2004, and a ready-to-wear line McQ in 2006.

Bolton, Andrew, 1966-
US.20200715.017 · Persona · 1966-

Andrew Bolton is a British-born Museum Curator. Bolton holds a degree in social anthropology from the University of East Anglia. Soon after graduating, Bolton was hired by the V & A Museum in London. Bolton worked at the V & A for nine years, before leaving for New York. In 2002, Bolton was hired as an Associate Curator of the Costume Institute. Three years later, he was promoted to Curator in Charge, following Harold Koda's retirement. While at the MET, Bolton has curated numerous shows, including Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011), China: Through the Looking Glass (2015), Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology (2016), and Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), the later being the museum's third most visited exhibition ever.

Shaw, Doris, 1921-2019
US.20220505.001 · Persona · 1921 September 12-2019 March 16

Doris Shaw was born on September 12, 1921, in Richmond, Virginia to Barnett H. Garey and Cora Wachsman Garey as one of eight children. As an adult, she worked in creative retail marketing, dating back to her first assignment after graduating from Newark School of Fine Arts in 1942. She landed her first paying job as assistant art director at Loeser's Department Store in Brooklyn when she was 21.

Shaw's talent in directing advertising, published across all media and communication channels, led her to become the first woman to head up Marketing at Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, and Abraham & Straus (now Macy's). She was the Editor-in-Chief at House Beautiful magazine. She also gave talks to the Marketing and Fashion community, and was interviewed and published in design magazines and blogs. Shaw passed away in March, 2019.

De Montebello, Philippe
US.20220503.002 · Persona · 1936 May 16-

De Montebello served from 1977 to 2008 as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Sinderbrand, Laura
US.20220502.001 · Persona

Director of the Edward C. Blum Design Laboratory at the Fashion Institute of Technology with Robert Riley and then Richard Martin.

Martin, Richard
US.20180711.008 · Persona · 1946 December 4 - 1999 November 8

Richard Harrison Martin was born on Dec. 4, 1946, at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967 and received two master's degrees, both from Columbia University. He had begun his career in New York in 1973, teaching art history at F.I.T., at the School of Visual Arts and at New York University. He served as the editor in chief of Arts Magazine before being appointed the executive director of the Shirley Goodman Resource Center, which is responsible for exhibitions and collections at the fashion institute. His involvement with fashion exhibitions began in 1980 at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where he worked with Mr. Koda and Laura Sinderbrand, the director of the school's Design Laboratory, now called the Museum at FIT.

Martin became the curator of the Met's costume collection in 1993 where he presented such exhibitions as ''Cubism and Fashion,'' ''Gianni Versace,'' ''Christian Dior,'' ''American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930's-1970's,'' ''Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress,'' ''Madame Gres'' and ''Swords Into Ploughshares: Military Dress and the Civilian Wardrobe." Martin also added to the Costume Institute's collection by accepting donations of clothing from designers and their clients and by shopping at auctions, flea markets, discount stores and Barneys New York's warehouse sales.

Martin wrote more than 100 scholarly papers on subjects as varied as ''Art History and the Assimilation of Images by Contemporary Artists'' and ''Redress of the Nerds: The Assertion of Nerd Style in Men's Clothing and Imagery in the 1980's.'' He also wrote books on fashion and art, including ''Fashion and Surrealism'' and ''Charles James,'' and was a co-author of others. He was a tireless lecturer and reviewer and held many academic positions, including those at the School of Visual Arts, New York University, Columbia University, the Juilliard School and Parsons School of Design.

Martin passed in 1999 of melanoma.

Koda, Harold
US.20220325.042 · Persona · 1950 January 3-

Harold Koda was the Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2000 until his retirement in 2016. His exhibitions include “Goddess“ (2003), “Dangerous Liaisons” (2004), “Poiret: King of Fashion” (2007), “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion” (2009), “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” (2012), and “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” (2014). Koda’s tenure is highlighted by the transfer of the Brooklyn Museum’s Costume Collection to the Metropolitan Museum in January 2009 and the reopening of The Costume Institute’s space after a two-year renovation on May 8, 2014, as the Anna Wintour Costume Center.

In his earlier tenure at the Metropolitan Museum as Associate Curator, Koda worked closely with the late Richard Martin, then Curator in Charge, on 12 acclaimed exhibitions, including “Diana Vreeland: Immoderate Style” (1993), “Madame Grès” (1994), and “Christian Dior” (1996). Koda has co-authored 20 books, including 12 landmark catalogues for Met exhibitions. He lectures widely and contributes scholarly articles to many publications.

Prior to rejoining the Metropolitan, Koda served as co-curator of “Giorgio Armani” (2000) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. He worked for 11 years at the Edward C. Blum Design Laboratory of the Fashion Institute of Technology as Associate Curator, and Curator in the costume collection, and then as Director of the Design Laboratory, from 1979 to 1992. He was the curator of “Balenciaga” (1986), and worked on exhibitions including “Jocks and Nerds” (1989), “Splash!” (1990), and “Halston: Absolute Modernism” (1991), with Richard Martin, and occasionally with Laura Sinderbrand. Earlier, he was an Exhibition Assistant to the Costume Institute’s Special Consultant, Diana Vreeland, working on Met exhibitions, including “The Glory of Russian Costume” (1976), and “Vanity Fair” (1977).

Born in Honolulu, he graduated from the University of Hawaii with a B.A., and a B.F.A. in Art History. He also studied at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, and received his Masters degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University in 2000. Koda received special awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1986 and 1997, the Costume Society of America Richard Martin Award for “Poiret: King of Fashion” in 2007, and the Fashion Group International Oracle Award in 2009.

US.20220325.023 · Persona · 1935 January 13-2008 October 13

Luciana Pignatelli was an Italian socialite who was a social arbiter, spokesmodel for Camay soap, and a jewelry designer.

Hofmann, Hans
US.20220325.025 · Persona · 1880 March 21-1966 February 17

Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) is one of the most important figures of postwar American art. Celebrated for his exuberant, color-filled canvases, and renowned as an influential teacher for generations of artists—first in his native Germany, then in New York and Provincetown—Hofmann played a pivotal role in the development of Abstract Expressionism.

Between 1900 and 1930, Hofmann’s early studies, decades of painting, and schools of art took him to Munich, to Paris, then back to Munich. By 1933, and for the next four decades, he lived in New York and in Provincetown. Hofmann’s evolution from foremost modern art teacher to pivotal modern artist brought him into contact with many of the foremost artists, critics, and dealers of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Betty Parsons, Peggy Guggenheim, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and many others. His successful career was shepherded by the postwar modern art dealer Sam Kootz, secured by the art historian and critic Clement Greenberg, and anchored by the professional and personal support of his first wife, Maria “Miz” Wolfegg (1885–1963).

Already 64 by the time of his first solo exhibition at Art of This Century in New York in 1944, Hofmann balanced the demands of teaching and painting until he closed his school in 1956. Doing so enabled him to renew focus on his own painting at during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, and for the next twenty years, Hofmann’s voluminous output—powerfully influenced by Matisse’s use of color and Cubism’s displacement of form—developed into an artistic approach and theory he called “push and pull,” which he described as interdependent relationships between form, color, and space. From his early landscapes of the 1930s, to his “slab” paintings of the late 1950s, and his abstract works at the end of his career upon his death in 1966, Hofmann continued to create boldly experimental color combinations and formal contrasts that transcended genre and style.

Losey, Joseph
US.20220325.029 · Persona · 1909 January 14-1984 June 22

Joseph Losey, in full Joseph Walton Losey, (born Jan. 14, 1909, La Crosse, Wis., U.S.—died June 22, 1984, London, Eng.), American motion-picture director, whose highly personal style was often manifested in films centering on intense and sometimes violent human relationships.

After graduating from Dartmouth College (B.A., 1929) and Harvard University (M.A., 1930), Losey wrote book and theatre reviews. In 1935, while working as a European-based reporter for Variety, the newspaper of the entertainment industry, he attended classes conducted by Sergey Eisenstein, the foremost Soviet film director and theorist. During the 1930s and ’40s Losey directed stage productions on Broadway and for the WPA Federal Theatre Project. One of his greatest artistic successes was the 1947 presentation of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo Galilei.

Losey directed educational and documentary films in the late 1930s and in 1945 won an Academy Award nomination for the short subject A Gun in His Hand. Gradually, he came to direct full-length features, which were personal statements on controversial topics—e.g., pacifism (The Boy with Green Hair, 1948), racial prejudice (The Lawless, 1950), and police corruption (The Prowler, 1951). Blacklisted in Hollywood in 1952 along with numerous others accused of Communist affiliations, Losey went to England, where he worked anonymously until the release of The Gypsy and the Gentlemen in 1958. Many of his films were written by the British playwright Harold Pinter, including The Servant (1963), Accident (1967), and The Go-Between, which won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971. They brought him international recognition especially among the French critics. Later films include The Assassination of Trotsky (1972), A Doll’s House (1973), Mr. Klein (1976), Don Giovanni (1979), and La Truite (1982; The Trout)

Kresch, Albert
US.20220325.026 · Persona · 1922 July 4-

Albert Kresch is a New York School painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. A member of the Jane Street Gallery in the 1940’s, he exhibited in later years at Salander O’Reilly and Lohin Geduld Galleries among others. He is best known for landscapes and still life compositions painted with evocatively rhythmic forms and vibrant colors.

Born in Scranton, PA, Kresch moved with his family to New York in the 30’s. He began studying figure drawing at the Brooklyn Museum, but soon enrolled in the Hans Hoffman School. Among his peers were Leland Bell, Louisa Mattiasdottir, Nell Blaine, Judith Rothschild, Robert De Niro Sr. and Virginia Admiral.

In the 40’s he exhibited abstract work in his first two shows at the Jane Street Gallery at a time when Abstract Expressionism was gathering steam. He soon embarked however on an independent path inspired by the French artist, Jean Helion to return to representation painting. Friendships with Poets Denise Levertov and Frank O’Hara reflect the breadth of his interests. His painting philosophy was a supject of Levertov’s poem, “The Dog of Art” and “Kresch’s Studio.”

Kresch won a Fulbright scholarship in 1953, aided in part by a letter of recommendation from Willem DeKooning. JHe was elected a member of the National Academy in 2005.

Educational Alliance
US.20220325.027 · Entidad colectiva · 1889-

Educational Alliance has served Lower Manhattan since 1889. Originally a settlement house for East European Jews immigrating to New York City, the history of the Lower East Side and the history of Educational Alliance are deeply intertwined.

In addition to basic classes and programs on how to be a good American, our flagship building at 197 East Broadway offered a creative outlet via the Educational Alliance Art School, recreational respite in the Rooftop Garden (serving 10,000 people per day in the summer of 1903), cultural programming in the theater (Eddie Cantor made his stage debut there in 1905), and other escapes from cramped tenement life.

In the 1940s, as the population of the Lower East Side changed, so did Educational Alliance. We shifted from being volunteer run and introduced social service programs overseen by trained professionals. We were one of the first organizations to offer Head Start for early childhood education, and we recently addressed the needs of the aging population of the neighborhood by helping establish one of the first Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities.

Roberts, Dorothy
US.20220325.028 · Persona · 1928 December 6-2020 June 11

Dorothy Roberts was the chairwoman and chief executive officer of Echo Design Group.

Losey, Gavrik
US.20220325.030 · Persona · 1938-

Gavrik Losey, film producer, was born in New York in 1938 and is the son of the film director Joseph Losey (1909-1984). He was brought up in Hollywood until his father was forced to flee the USA in order to avoid testifying before the House Un-American Committee in 1951. He came to Europe in 1956, attending University College London and then entering the film industry as a full-time professional in 1959.

Intending to work in production and producing, Losey trained initially as a film editor, film camera assistant and television cameraman in order to obtain practical experience of the creative side of the industry. He also became involved in assistant directing. By the mid 1960s, he had broken into production management, and worked on more than twenty films in this capacity, including Thirty is a dangerous age, Cynthia and Robbery. He also became the in-house production supervisor for Tony Richardson's Woodfall films and worked on the Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour. In the late 1970s, he joined VPS/Goodtimes Films as Associate Producer/Producer before turning freelance. His freelance films of this period include Little Malcolm (awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival), Agatha, Babylon, Dance Craze and The Disappearance.

During the 1980s, Losey was Deputy Managing Director in charge of production at the Legion multi-media group of companies, which made films, records, TV commercials and produced graphic design. He became involved in developing a number of tax structure for projects in Ireland and gained a working knowledge in European/Irish tax deals for film finance. He also structured a European-Australian collaboration with the Australian Film Commission to make a mini-series on the life of opera singer Joan Sutherland. During this period he also produced Living Apart Together, the BBC documentary The Foreign Legion, and A Child from the South.

From 1992, Losey became Project and Production Consultant for Miran Films (UK and Germany), a company specialising in funding the development of film projects. Projects developed by the Company included Last Waltz in Vienna, Diamond Dance, Yesterday's Child and the TV series The Masques of Daphne du Maurier; a mystery series based on the collected short stories of the author. From 1996-1999, Losey then worked for Bell Tower Productions Inc. (Germany/USA). Since 1999, Losey has acted as a freelance production advisor, surveying and budgeting various films such as Cry on the Wind, The '400' and The Populist.

Losey has lectured at the London Film School, and on the QEII. He has given seminars on budgeting and production scheduling for Dr Tim Hammond, the Bath Media College, and at HTV in Bristol. He has been involved with the Open University and contributes to teaching on the University of Bristol's MA in Film and Television Production. He is an Honorary Follow of the University of Exeter.

Bové, June
US.20220325.032 · Persona · late 1920s or early 1930s-

June Burns Bové earned an MA from New York University in costume studies. For 20 years a contract employee of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June is textile conservator for Yeshiva University Museum and has been an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Graduate Studies of Fashion Institute of Technology since 1991, where her specialty is costume exhibition. She has consulted for many museums and institutions and in 2011, the Costume Society of America named her a Fellow of the Society.

Arnold, Rebecca
US.20220325.033 · Persona · 1968 or 1969-

Rebecca Arnold was educated at King’s College, London (BA Hons History, 1990), The Courtauld Institute of Art (MA History of Dress, 1993) and University College London (PhD, 2006). Before joining The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2009 as a Senior Lecturer in History of Dress & Textiles, she was a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Design Department at the Royal College of Art and a Visiting Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2006, she was the first Guest Professor at the Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. In 2001, she set up and ran the BA (Hons) Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design.

Her current book project, Documenting Fashion: Modernity and Image in America, 1920-60 considers dress in relation to popular visual culture and through the lens of sensory theory, history of emotion, and memory studies.

Reim, Melanie
US.20220318.103 · Persona

"Melanie joined FIT in 1996, and by 2001, became one of the one of the founders of the MA/ MFA program in Illustration in the School of Graduate Studies at FIT, expanding and raising the profile of the undergraduate and graduate Illustration departments at FIT as Chairperson from 2001 to 2017. Under her tenure, the MFA in Illustration at FIT has expanded and flourished, and is one of the most successful and respected programs at the institution. Melanie is also seen as a leader on the FIT campus, appointed to committees inclusive of the President's Council on Strategic Planning, the Brand Consortium and one of the co-founders of the President's Council on Diversity, engaging with students and faculty all across campus." https://societyillustrators.org/award-winners/melanie-reim/

Arbuckle, Joanne
US.20220325.034 · Persona · 1954-

Joanne Arbuckle is deputy to the president for Industry Partnerships and Collaborative Programs at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). As the liaison between the president, the college, and outside organizations, she develops and expands partnerships and collaborations nationally and globally for the college. She works closely with the executive director of the FIT/Infor Design and Tech Lab to integrate the work of the lab with the schools and other divisions of the college. Arbuckle co-chairs President Brown’s Workforce of the Future Committee and served on the Workforce Development advisory Board of AFFOA. Her experience as a creative director, business owner, educator, and higher education administrator, provides her with a comprehensive background in the development and implementation of educational programs.

Arbuckle served as dean of the School of Art and Design for over a decade. The school enrolls 4,000 students, has a faculty of 537 full-time and adjunct professors and instructors, and offers 17 majors. As dean, she was responsible for all school operations, departmental development, special programs, fundraising, student enrichment initiatives, and faculty recruitment. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Schools of Art & Design and served the association as a visiting evaluator on accreditation.

She became an associate professor in 2002 and a full professor in 2006. In 2003, she was awarded the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

An industry professional with more than 30 years of experience, Arbuckle worked as a designer and merchandiser before becoming president of the fashion-industry consulting firm Design Integrity. She has served as a consultant and industry expert witness for law firms on matters concerning the industry, and has participated in interviews for numerous media reports on subjects pertaining to fashion and fashion education.

Arbuckle co-authored the book Historical Dictionary of Fashion and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion.

She earned her Master of Arts in educational administration in higher education from New York University, her Bachelor of Science in fashion design at the State University of New York Empire State College, and her Associate in Applied Science in fashion design at FIT.

Mindell, Judy
US.20220325.035 · Persona · 1927 or 1928-

Judy Mindell was a student at FIT in the 1940s.

Leblang, Paul
US.20201014.022 · Persona

Paul Leblang was a Senior Vice-President, Director of Marketing at Saks Fifth Avenue from 1975-1990. In 1979, he was elected to the Retail Advertising Hall of Fame by the Retail Advertising Conference and was named Retail Man of the Year. He is a recipient of a Silver Medal from the National Retail Merchants Association, and the 1993 Edward Mayer Jr. Award from the Direct Marketing Association. He holds a Ph.D. and MBA from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and served as an adjunct Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Winston, Paul
US.20220325.043 · Persona · 1938 or 1938-

Paul Winston runs Winston Tailors and Chipp Neckwear, who's clients included John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and The Thin Man's Peter Lawford.

Wassner, Gary
US.20220325.036 · Persona · 1952 January 8-

In the fashion industry, Gary Wassner, CEO of Hilldun Corporation, known as the company behind many of Seventh Avenue’s most prestigious fashion companies, has provided financing and factoring for many of America’s and the world’s most iconic designer labels. Willi Smith, Derek Lam, Jason Wu, Maria Cornejo, Yeohlee, C.C. Greene, Isabel Marant, Golden Goose, Rebecca Taylor, Tommy Hilfiger, Naeem Kahn, Jonathan Simkhai, Victor Glemaud, Vivienne Westwood, Sacai, John Elliot, Fear of God, Mara Hoffman, Thom Browne, Betsey Johnson and Marc Jacobs are only a few of fashion’s finest that have benefitted from his discerning eyes and business acumen.

Named one of Fashionista’s 50 Most Influential People in Fashion, Gary is also an advisory board member of Fordham Law School’s Fashion Law Institute, a board member of FGI, an instructor for the DENYC program, a board member of the High School of Fashion Industries, a member of FIT’s Social Justice Advisory Council, and a passionate supporter of all causes related to the Fashion Industry in NYC and globally.

In addition to being a force in the fashion industry, he is a well-respected fiction writer and children’s book author. Wassner resides in New York with his wife Cathy and his extended family.

Herman, Stan
US.20220325.037 · Persona · 1930-

The three-time Coty award-winning designer Stan Herman is truly a pioneering man. Not only was he the President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America for sixteen years, but also the founding president of 7th on Sixth Corporation; New York City Fashion week, for seven years. With KOMAR, Stan has incorporated his ready-to-wear design savvy to become America’s foremost designer of robes and loungewear.

His comfortable, lifestyle driven products can be found on QVC, QVCUK, QVCItaly. After 24 years on air he has built a return customer base of over 300,000 people and has sold over $100 million worth of robes alone. Furthermore as the leading uniform designer in the world his uniforms arguably cover more bodies than any other single designer.

As a pioneer in the industry, Stan popularized "fashion at a price" with his Mr. Mort label; a label sought by vintage collectors today. When most designers were relegated to backrooms, he served as a spokesman for the creative side of the industry, championing designer names on labels, and watching out for the good of his colleagues. He was on the vanguard of designer boutiques with Saks Fifth Avenue, and in-store designer partnerships with Henri Bendel.

Mr. Herman popularized the Designer Uniform. His list of corporate clients has included many of the world's leading corporations. FedEx, Jet Blue, United Airlines, TWA, U.S. Airways McDonald's, and Amtrak, Avis, Humana, RCCL, and Securitas along with Las Vegas Hotels including Paris, MGM Grand, and Monte Carlo. He did the latest designs for the newly re-opened Regency Hotel as well as the rest of the Loews Hotel system. He has also redesigned the next look for FedEx and the new JetBlue uniform.

Historically, he presented the first walking shorts to the corporate world, and the first knitted shirts to meet the quality demands of uniform wearability. As a leader in innovation, he keeps his programs at the forefront by using technologically advanced fabrics and following the consumers’ interests from a retail standpoint to make sure that the uniform is in line with not only what an employee expects his clothing to be but anticipate the next generation of fit and comfort. The branding positions of accounts such as FedEx have benefited from the studios blending of ready-to-wear clothing with the needs of uniform apparel.

As President of the CFDA, Stan was instrumental in their humanitarian fund raising efforts as well. The launch of "Fashion Targets Breast Cancer" and ongoing efforts, have raised millions for research. Additionally, under his direction, the CFDA has been a leader in benefiting education and fighting AIDS. He sits on the boards of both The Garment District Bid, and the Bryant Park Corporation.

He has been honored with the CFDA’s most prestigious lifetime achievement award for his advancement of American Fashion, as well as Lifetime recognition from the Dallas Market for his career in fashion, and GMHC for his pioneering efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

QVC
US.20220325.038 · Entidad colectiva · 1986 June 13-

QVC (Quality Value Convenience) Inc. is the nation's largest electronic retailer, selling a wide variety of merchandise that includes clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, electronics, housewares, and toys. The company sells its products through cable and satellite television, QVC.com, in outlet centers, and via a retail store in the Mall of America. In 2003, the company broadcasted live 24 hours a day, 364 days a year, to over 85 million homes across the United States, 11 million homes in the United Kingdom, 34 million homes in Germany, and over eight million homes in Japan. QVC, which stands for "Quality, Value, and Convenience," grew quickly into an industry powerhouse during the late 1980s and early 1990s due to increases in cable subscription rates, consumers' growing dependence on mail-order shopping, and advances in telecommunications, allowing the company, with its interactive approach, to integrate computers, television, cable, and telephone lines into an "information superhighway." In 2002, QVC handled over 150 million phone calls and shipped over 107 million items.

The Bowery Mission Men's Center
US.20220325.058 · Entidad colectiva · 1870s-

The Bowery Mission Men's Center at Avenue D currently offers transitional housing for formerly homeless men who graduate from The Bowery Mission's residential recovery program. In the near future, the Men's Center will also offer long-term residential recovery programming for men, which will include comprehensive services such as life skills training, vocational training, mentoring, counseling, recovery services, recreation, pastoral care, and housing support upon exit.

Hephzibah House
US.20220325.059 · Entidad colectiva · 1893-

Since 1893, “The Hephzibah House and Bible Training School” has been home in New York City. How the name Hephzibah was selected is not known. However, as the Christ-centered program unfolded, the description from Isaiah seems to have made the choice appropriate. “Thou shalt be called Hephzibah… for the LORD delighteth in thee” (Isaiah 62:4, KJV).

Three objectives were cited for the organization. The first objective was to provide a school for working young ladies to receive instruction in the Bible along with industrial training and training in Christian work.

Hephzibah House was later expanded to provide temporary lodging for visiting missionaries and Christian workers in New York City. The final objective was to provide a place where people visiting New York City, in order to pursue Christian work, could take a course in Bible study and find accommodations at moderate prices.

Leonia Presbyterian Church
US.20220325.060 · Entidad colectiva · 1899 February 15-

The Presbyterian Church in Leonia was formally established on February 15,1899, when 48 members of the Leonia True Dutch Reformed Church braved a heavy snowstorm to meet with representatives of the former Presbytery of Jersey City. The members split from the Reformed Church because they wanted to allow Christians from other denominations to participate in communion with them. The Rev. James Wyckoff was the first pastor.Initially the Church owned no land; in December of 1899, a gift of the land the Church still stands on was given by Mrs. Harriet Gladwin Walker. Two years later, our sanctuary opened for worship.

Bowery Mission Women’s Center
US.20220325.061 · Entidad colectiva · 1894-

The Bowery Mission provides caring and safe Residential Programs for women in crisis to achieve personal goals for life and work, heal from past trauma, and overcome barriers to independent living. All women are invited into a faith-based community committed to practicing hospitality, showing respect, and restoring hope.

Matheson, Rebecca
US.20220325.063 · Persona · 1975-

Rebecca Matheson is a fashion historian and an adjunct instructor in FIT’s MA Program in Fashion and Textile studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice. Matheson’s research focuses on nineteenth-and twentieth-century American women’s dress, using interdisciplinary approaches to discover women’s narratives as designers, makers, sellers, and consumers. Her recent projects have dealt with millinery, leather goods, advertising, teenage fashion, and dress for long-distance train travel. She is the author of two monographs, The Sunbonnet: an American Icon in Texas (2009) and Young Originals: Emily Wilkens and the Teen Sophisticate (2015). Matheson holds an MA in Fashion and Textile Studies from FIT, a JD from the University of Texas School of Law, and is currently a PHD candidate at the Bard Graduate Center.

US.20220325.068 · Entidad colectiva · 1935-1943

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest years of the Great Depression. Over its eight years of existence, the WPA put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work. Perhaps best known for its public works projects, the WPA also sponsored projects in the arts – the agency employed tens of thousands of actors, musicians, writers and other artists.

Kiam, Omar
US.20220325.071 · Persona · 1894 July 19-1954 March 28

Born Alexander Kiam in Monterrey, Mexico, to Texan parents, Kiam picked up the nickname Omar at Riverview Preparatory School in Poughkeepsie, New New York He later went to the Poughkeepsie Military Academy in New New York His first job as a designer was producing caps for babies for a department store in Houston.

Following a stint in Paris as a student, Kiam returned to the United States and opened his studio in New York, where he produced work for Broadway theatre.

Among the theatre productions he costumed were Dinner at Eight, the Robert East. Sherwood play Reunion in Vienna, and the Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes play Dishonored Lady. In 1933 he moved to Hollywood, where he headed the film costume design departments for Sam Goldwyn Productions and United Artists.

Before leaving Hollywood in 1939, Kiam also worked for David O. Selznick and Hal Roach. One of Kiam"s most notable films was the 1937 film A Star is Born, for which he dressed Janet Gaynor.

He collaborated with Irene on Algiers.

Filmography Although primarily known as a costume designer Kiam had also run a wholesale fashion design business supplying clothing to shops across the United States before he moved to Hollywood. After leaving Hollywood, in 1941 Kiam became head designer for the Ben Reig fashion label, a company founded in 1929. Also designing costume jewelry for them from 1948, he worked there until his death in 1954.

During the early 1950s Liz Claiborne worked for Kiam.

Kiam died 28 March 1954 at the Ritz Tower Hotel in New New York

US.20220325.076 · Entidad colectiva · 1808 June 25-

Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in New York City. The church, on Fifth Avenue at 7 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan, has approximately 2,200 members and is one of the larger PCUSA congregations. The church, founded in 1808 as the Cedar Street Presbyterian Church, has been at this site since 1875.

Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church has long been noted for its high standards in preaching and music and has been at the forefront of many movements, from the development of the Sunday school in the 19th century to its current leadership in homeless advocacy. In 2001, the church successfully sued the City of New York for the right to shelter homeless individuals on its front steps.

In 1884, the joint funerals of the mother of President Theodore Roosevelt and of his first wife, Alice, were held here. In 1910, the church's historic sanctuary was the site of the wedding of TR's son, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., an event attended by the former President, and 500 of his former Rough Riders. It was also the site of the 1965 recording of A Concert of Sacred Music by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, broadcast nationally by CBS television in 1966,[7] and of dance legend Frankie Manning's "rollicking three-hour memorial service" in 2009.

Architecturally and historically, “Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is famed for its sloping auditorium, its fine acoustics, its old gas brackets and reflectors. Instrumental in founding Princeton Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Hospital (now New York Presbyterian Hospital) and many a mission church, this grand house of God is often called the Cathedral of Presbyterianism.”