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Soprani
US.20201118.030 · Corporate body · 1982-
Soprani, Luciano, 1946-1999
US.20240325-008 · Person · 1946-1999

Luciano Soprani, born in Italy, dominated Italian fashion in the early 1980's. He worked with Max Mara for eight years and started his own label in 1982 while continuing to design for other houses, including Gucci.

Sprouse, Stephen
US.20240325.001 · Person · 1953 September 12 – 2004 March 4
Bunka Fashion College
US.20201113.005 · Corporate body · 1919-

Bunka Fashion College is Japan's first fashion school. Originally founded in 1919 as a small dressmaking school, it was approved as the first dressmaking school in Japan in 1923. It is globally considered one of the most prestigious fashion schools in Asia and has produced many renowned designers including Kenzo Takada, Yohji Yamamoto, Junya Watanabe, Jun Takahashi, and more.

Gaynor, Janet
US.20240318.001 · Person · 1906-1984

Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter.

"One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won for multiple roles. This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS. Her career continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937). She worked only sporadically after the late 1930s. Severely injured in a 1982 vehicle collision, the incident contributed to her death two years later."

Szold-Fritz, Bernardine
US.20240317.002 · Person · 1896-1982

"Bernardine Szold-Fritz, née Bernardine Sholes, was born August 14, 1896 in Peoria, Illinois. She established the International Art Theater in Shanghai, China and was a Paris correspondent for the The New Yorker before establishing herself as a hostess in Hollywood. She married multiple times, including marriages to Otto K. Liveright on November 6, 1922 and Chester Fritz on June 18, 1929. Bernardine Szold-Fritz died February 15, 1982 in Los Angeles, California."

Hopper, Hedda, 1885-1966
US.20240317.001 · Person · 1885-1966

"Hedda Hopper (1890-1966) was an American actress and gossip columnist."

Gaskins, Eric
US.20230719.001 · Person · 1958-

Eric Gaskins was born in 1958 in Germany and grew up in Groton, Massachusetts. He attended Lawrence Academy and graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in fine arts. He was trained in Paris by Hubert Givenchy before returning to the United States where he launched his own label in New York in 1987. He designed for Koos Van den Akker, Bob Evans, and Scott Barrie before starting his own label. His designs have been featured on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Spy, Bazaar, Glamour, Vanity Fair, and Palm Beach Illustrated. Other significant editorial coverage included such magazines and television programs as Self, New Woman, Elle, Essence and Entertainment Tonight. His celebrity clients include Salma Hayek, Melanie Griffith, Vanessa Williams, Mariah Carey, Geena Davis, Maria Shriver, Jada Pinkett, Jennifer Lopez, Allison Janney, Kim Cattrall, Kathy Bates and Goldie Hawn. He worked as a designer for 22 years before closing his business in 2009 to reveal he had been blogging under the pseudonym Fluff Chance for the blog The Emperor's Old Clothes.

Winters, Arthur A.
US.20201204.010 · Person · 1925 April 27 - 2024 February 6

Arthur Winters was a former professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and founder of the Advertising and Marketing Communications Department. He is an educator and author, specializing in strategic brand management, planning, and creative execution.

"Arthur was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and grew up in The Bronx and New Rochelle. He volunteered for military service at the age of 17 and served as a US Navy fighter pilot in WWII, flying the Hellcat on carriers in the Pacific. After New Rochelle HS, he was sent for Navy training to Williams College (class of 1946) graduating with a BA in economics after the war in 1948. He continued his education at Pace University (MBA) and Temple University (EdD).

"Pursuing his career in advertising, he started his own agency in the Empire State Building, with many fashion accounts. From there he was asked to teach at The Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of NY. He became the founding chairman of the department of Advertising and Marketing Communications. He was a beloved leader and supporter of his faculty and students. He wrote many text and industry books and videos, named and launched many brands like Isotoner Gloves; was an early creator of the brand-marketing concept. He and his wife, Prof. Peggy Winters, were partners in their TFI Geomarketing consulting firm. They co-wrote Blogs and many books, conducted international seminars and consulted in integrated and experiential marketing communications. They met at FIT and completed their career team-teaching in the International Affairs and Professional Studies Programs at FIT. They taught/worked in over a dozen countries."

Winters passed away on February 6, 2024 at the age of 98.

US.20180702.065 · Person · 1895-1945

Vally Wieselthier (Valerie Wielsethier) was born in 1895 in Vienna, Austria. She started studying at the Vienna School for Applied Arts in 1914, focusing on painting but later switching to the architecture class of Josef Hoffman. In 1917, she attended the ceramics workshop headed by Michael Powolny. In 1917. Wieselthier joined the newly opened ceramics workshop of the Wiener Werkstätte, working under Hoffman and artistic director Dagobert Peche. Her work is characterized by playful and humorous designs combined with the use of traditional forms and free use of materials. She also designed in other mediums, such as textiles and glass. From 1922 to 1927 she had her own workshop in Vienna. Her ceramic sculptures were represented at the 1925 “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” in Paris. In 1927 she returned to the Wiener Werkstätte to head its ceramics workshop. She spent 18 months in New York City between 1927 and 1928 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1932, where she created work for the Contempora Group (collaborating with Paul Poiret) and Sebring Pottery Company.

Teweles, Nicole Emmerich
US.20240206.002 · Person · 1927-2023

Nicole Emmerich Teweles was a junior editor of Tobé Report in the late 1940s, early 1950s.

Frowick, Lesley
Person

Lesley Frowick is the niece of fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick who was know professionally as Halston. She is the Halston Archives, the author of Halston: Inventing American Fashion (Rizzoli, 2014) and the executive producer of the documentary Halston: The Original Fashion Mogul produced by Frederic Tcheng. She lives and works as a real estate agent in New Braunfels, Texas.