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Gradina Aprile was an Italian weaver and quill winder who specialized in jacquard patterns with silk.

Nat Bader and his brother Irving ran Originala, a high-end Seventh Avenue suit and coat house, founded by their father Louis Bader. The company went public in 1961.

Stephen Aranoff was the president of lingerie company, Lady Lynne, Inc. and the son of the company's founder, Morris Aranoff. He started working on and off at his father's company in 1953 while he went to university at Brown, and began working permanently in 1957.

Irving Rubinstein Sr. was the head of Sam Silberstein Corp., and president of the National Association of Women's and Children's Apparel Sales Inc.

Hazel Bishop was a chemist and invented the first long-lasting lipstick. In late 1948, she co-founded her company, Hazel Bishop, Inc., to manufacture her lipstick. In 1954, she left the company and became a consultant to the National Association of Leather Glove Manufacturers where she developed "Leather Lav," a leather glove cleaner in 1955. In 1957, she created a solid perfume stick called Perfemme. She became a professor at FIT in 1978, teaching in the cosmetics, fragrances, and toiletries department. Bishop helped develop a curriculum whose focus included marketing and merchandising principles, advertising, promotion, and publicity campaign concepts, and product knowledge. She was appointed to the Revlon Chair in Cosmetics Marketing in 1980. She stopped teaching in 1986, though she remained involved with the Fashion Institute as a consultant.

"Robert Lamont Green, a men's fashion editor, consultant and lecturer who was the fashion director of Playboy magazine for more than 20 years, has died at age 79. ... Mr. Green was a familiar figure in the New York fashion world of the 1960s and '70s. Called Robert L. by his friends and associates, he was widely known for his wit, his skills as a raconteur and his many parties. At Playboy, from 1958 to 1975, he strengthened the magazine's fashion coverage and increased its presence in the fashion world by organizing special events and founding the Caswell-Massey Awards, which later became Playboy's Creative Men's Wear Awards. ... He occasionally appeared on "The Merv Griffin Show," "The Mike Douglas Show," "Tonight" show and "Today" show. He also wrote a book, "Live With Style," as well as articles for Architectural Digest and other publications. In 1983, he moved to Los Angeles and became a fashion consultant to the TV and film industries. After graduating from Michigan State University, Mr. Green worked as a child psychologist until he served in the Army during World War II. Settling in Washington after his discharge, he started a public relations agency and became the host of a CBS radio program dealing with musical theater." Chicago Tribune, Obituary, 1997

Robert Green made a considerable contribution to the Oral History Program at the Fashion Institute of Technology's Gladys Marcus Library throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s."

Bonnie Cashin was born on September 28, 1915 in Oakland, CA. As a child, Cashin was given scraps of fabric to play with and soon began designing with the scraps. Even before graduating High School, Cashin was hired to design costumes for a ballet company in Los Angeles. When the manager of the ballet company moved to New York, a 19 year old Cashin went along. Her first fashion designs were for the clothing manufacturer Alder & Alder. Once the United States entered the second World War, Cashin was hired to design uniforms for women in the armed forces. The fabric restrictions, however, proved too limiting for Cashin, who, soon after being hired, moved to Hollywood and began designing costumes for 20th Century Fox (the fabric restrictions for costume design were less strict). Cashin moved back to New York in 1949 and three years later, won her first Coty award. Cashin's sportswear designs were innovative and effortlessly chic. "Bonnie Cashin Designs" opened in 1952 while also designing for Philip Sills, a venture that lasted two decades. Bonnie Cashin is also the genius behind Coach's famous handbag clasp. At Coach, Cashin designs many classic handbags, including shoulder bags (some with removable straps) and a handbag inspired by paper shopping bags. Cashin worked at Coach from the early 1960s to 1974. In the early 1970s, Cashin expanded into knitwear, focusing on designs that were knitted to shape, rather than sewn piece by piece. Cashin won her second Coty award in 1968. Four years later, she was inducted into the Coty American Fashion Critics Hall of Fame. Bonnie Cashin passed away on February 3, 2000.

Bonnie Cashin (1907-2000) is considered one of the most significant pioneers of designer ready-to-wear, more commonly called sportswear, in America. Among the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful designers of the 20th century, Cashin was revered for her intellectual, artistic, and independent approach to fashion. Treating clothing as collage or kinetic art, she sculpted designs from luxurious organic materials including leather and mohair, both of which she first championed as appropriate for high-end fashion, as well as tweed, cashmere, and wool jersey. She initiated the use of industrial hardware on clothing and accessories, most famously with the brass toggle that she incorporated into her handbag designs for Coach, the company for which she launched a women accessories division in 1962. Favoring timeless shapes from the history of world clothing, her staple silhouettes included ponchos, tunics, Noh coats and kimonos, all of which allowed for ease of movement and manufacture. Cashin is also credited with introducing the concept of layering to fashion.

Jack Cassidy was the president of Lily of France Marketing, a subsidiary of the Bestform Foundations that sells women's undergarments. Cassidy was a Bronx-native and formerly worked as a sales manager of Bali Inc. after serving for seven years in the Army and in Navy submarines during World War II. He began working at Lily of France in 1973.

Beatrice Coleman was born to Ida Cohen and William Rosenthal in 1916. Her parents founded Maidenform Inc. in 1922. Beatrice Coleman joined Maidenform Inc., in 1938 after graduating from Barnard. She became the president of Maidenform Inc. in 1968, succeeding her husband, Dr. Joseph A. Colman, after he passed away. In the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter appointed Coleman to the National Commission for Unemployment Compensation. Coleman also acted as a trustee and board member for multiple institutions. Coleman passed away in June, 1990.

Rose Hartman is an American photographer. Hartman claims she got "hooked on photography" during an assignment for Daily News Record to shoot a wedding in in 1976. Hartman is known for her celebrity portraiture and has been published in Allure, Art+Auction, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Panorama, The New York Times, New York, Stern, Vanity Fair and Vogue. Hartman was the first photographer to document behind the scenes of Fashion Week catwalks to shoot models and designers backstage. FIT posed a retrospective of her work in 2011 and in 2016 a feature-length documentary film about her life, The Incomparable Rose Hartman, was made.

Paul Honig was the co-founder of Anglo Fabrics, a textile manufacturer specializing in fine woolen and worsted fabrics, primarily for the women’s coat, suit, and sportswear industries. The company was founded by Paul Honig, his brother Leo Honig, and his brother's wife Evelyn “Elly” Honig (née Reis).

Herbert (1916 - 1991) and Beth Levine (1914 - 2006) founded the Herbert Levine company in 1948. Their company, which sold high-end women's shoes made in New York, was one of the leading footwear design firms in the country. Their designs were worn by many celebrities including Jacqueline Kennedy and Liza Minnelli. Nancy Sinatra wore Herbert Levine white stiletto boots while singing about them in the mid-1960s. These boots, which were made for walking, started the Go-Go boot trend of the 60s. In 1964, Barbra Streisand wore Levine shoes during the run of her show "Funny Girl" on Broadway. In addition to the stage, Herbert Levine shoes were produced to be worn during fashion shows for designers like Halston and Pauline Trigère. The company folded in 1975. A year later, the Metropolitan Museum dedicated an exhibition to their designs. After closing their firm, the couple acted as consultants in the shoe industry in New York. The couple won two Coty Awards (1967 and 1973) and a Neiman Marcus Award (1954).

Robert Mulrenan was senior vice president and national sales manager of Warner's.

Israel Myers was the founder of London Fog and Londontown Manufacturing Company. He got his start making raincoats for the army during WWII, and post-war popularized the trench coat look for civilian wear, selling at retailers including Sears, Roebuck & Company, and the J. C. Penney Company.

Seymour J. Phillips was chairman of the board of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation and vice president of Beth Isreal Medical Center. This Manhattan-based company sold homemade shirts to coal miners, becoming a major manufacturer and retailer of men's apparel.

Michael Rappaport, born in 1970, is an American actor and comedian, appearing in over sixty films since the early 1990s.

Abe Schrader was a Jewish Polish-American clothing manufacturer. Schrader learned to cut patterns and make clothing at his uncle's company as a shipping clerk, and opened his own factory, acting as a contractor from 1927 to 1952. His business flourished when he was contracted to make uniforms for the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Schrader opened his clothing company Abe Schrader Corp. in 1969, specializing in dresses and separates. He sold his company to Interco Inc. in 1984 and eventually retired in 1989 after failing to negotiate the buy back of his company.

Mort Schrader was the son of Abe Schrader, founder of clothing manufacturing company Abe Schrader Corp. He joined his father's company and became its president in 1968.

Jerry Shaw was the Chairman Emeritus of Sterling Jewelers Inc. He served as Chairman and CEO from 1953 to 1987 and steered the company in becoming a leading jewelry corporation in North America.

Ben Sommers was the former head of dance and theatrical shoe company Capezio Ballet Makers. He started working at Capezio at age 14 as a stock boy, later working up to being a salesman, and eventually became the president of the company in 1940, were he headed the company for 36 years. He established the Capezio Foundation in 1951, which became a leading philanthropic organization dedicated to dance, giving special assistance to the emerging New York regional ballet movement. In 1957, Sommers created the Capezio Award, which was given for lifetime achievement in dance. He also founded the Association of American Dance Companies and established National Dance Week in 1978, as well as International Dance Week in 1985, to honor dance throughout the world.

Jack I. Straus was the former chief executive officer of R. H. Macy & Company. Straus was R. H. Macy's chief executive officer in the 1940's to the 1960's, a period when the company expanded into a nationwide chain. He joined the company in 1921, where he went on to become vice president in 1933, acting president in 1939 and president as well as chief executive in 1940. In 1956 he became chairman, and from 1968 to 1976 he was chairman of the executive committee.

He was part of a prominent merchandising family on his maternal side, as his great-grandfather, Lazarus Straus, and his great-uncle, Nathan Straus, formed merchandising firm L. Straus and Sons, and sold imported china and glassware to Rowland H. Macy, the founder of R. H. Macy. Nathan Straus and Jack Straus's grandfather, Isidor Straus later leased selling space from Mr. Macy's heirs and, in 1896, purchased control of the company. His father, Jesse Isidor Straus, was president of R. H. Macy until 1931.

Geraldine Stutz, born in Chicago in 1924, moved to New York and found work as fashion editor for movie magazines. In 1947, she was hired as an associate fashion editor for Glamour magazine, where she covered shoes. Stutz utilized her shoe knowledge and went to work for several shoe manufacturers where she was recognized for her ability in merchandising and advertising. Maxey Jarman named her to run the Henri Bendel store in 1957 where she successfully transformed the store from a carriage trade retailer into a chic emporium of designer brands.

Emily Wilkens, born in Hartford in 1917, studied fashion illustration at Pratt Institute. After graduating she sketched dresses for department store newespaper advertisements. While vacationing in Hollywood, she was asked to design a wardrobe for the child star Ann Todd. Since then, Wilkens continued to design clothes for preteen and teenage girls. She won a Coty award in 1945 for "creating the Young Junior look" and served as a trustee of the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Clare Potter, a leading American fashion designer of the 1930's and 40's was born in 1903 in Jersey City. She is one of several designers of the period who were cited for developing The American Look in sportswear. Not only did she receive the first Lord & Taylor Design Award in 1938, she also won Neiman Marcus and Coty Awards.

Andy Williams was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career and was nominated for six Grammy Awards.

As one of the most prolific and celebrated fashion photographers of the 20th century, Richard Avedon seemed destined for a career in the fashion industry. Born on May 15, 1923 in New York, NY, Avedon had fashion in his blood. His father was the owner of a Manhattan clothing store while his mother's family owned a dress manufacturing business. As a young boy, he pored over fashion magazines. Avedon attended Columbia University for a year before dropping out after being hired as a photographer by Merchant Marines. Avedon left Merchant Marines in 1944 and began apprenticing under Alexey Brodovitch, the art director at Harper's Bazaar, at his Design Laboratory at The New School. At the age of 22, Avedon's work began appearing in fashion magazines, first in Junior Bazaar in 1945 then in Harper's Bazaar a year later. Avedon was soon hired as a staff photographer and soon after, was sent to Paris by Brodovitch to cover the fashion shows. Avedon began experimenting with location during his time in Paris, often bringing models to Parisian Cafes or nightclubs. One of his most remembered photographs came about in 1955 when he posed models alongside circus elephants. While displaying talent for on-site photography, Avedon prefered to shoot in his studio, where he could draw out and focus on the emotive presence of his sitters. In the mid 1960s, Avedon left Harper's Bazaar for Vogue. Avedon continued a professional relationship with Vogue into the 1980s, shooting almost all of the cover images for the magazine. During this time, Avedon continued to garner acclaim from the art world for his work. MoMA exhibited his series depicting his terminally-ill father in 1973. The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a retrospective of Avedon's work two years later. After leaving Vogue in 1988, Avedon continued to work in photography. In 1992, The New Yorker hired Avedon as their first staff photographer. A year later, he published his autobiography. Richard Avedon passed away on October 1, 2004 while on assignment in San Antonio, TX. He was 81 years old.

Gorgen 'Ray' Aghayan was born in Tehran, Iran in 1928 and his interest in fashion perked at an early age as his mother was a couturier to the royal court of Iran. His love of Hollywood movies led him to California where he studied and later became a costume designer for the movie industry, garnering three Academy Award nominations for Costume Design and winning an Emmy in 1967 for his costuming work on 'Alice Through the Looking Glass,' an honor he shared with his life partner, Bob Mackie. Stars Aghayan costumed included Diana Ross, Judy Garland, Barbara Streisand and Julie Andrews. In 1984, Aghayan designed the ensembles worn by the US Olympic team for the opening and closing ceremonies at the games held in Los Angeles.

Joan Juliet Buck (1948 - ) is an American Writer. She began her career working as a fashion assistant for "Glamour" magazine in New York. At the age of 23, Buck became a features editor for British Vogue. In 1980, she moved to American Vogue. Two years later, Buck published her first book. Buck became the first American editor of French Vogue. From 1994 to 2001, Buck helped doubled the magazine's readership. In 2017, Buck published Price of Illusion, a memoir that delves into her rise in the publishing industry.

Diana Epstein was the founding proprietor, along with Millicent Safro, of Tender Buttons, a famous button store in New York City.

Romain de Tirtoff was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials.

Norman Hartnell is a British fashion designer. He is best known for his work with the Royal Family. Hartnell gained the Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1940; and Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II in 1957.

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American fashion designer.

Edward H. Molyneux was born in England in 1894. After a distinguished military career during World War I, he opened a design house on the Rue Royale in Paris. He later had couture houses in Paris and London and his designs were worn by many actresses such as Gertrude Lawrence, Lynn Fontanne, and Gladys Cooper.

Helen Rose was an American costume designer born in 1904. She started with Ice Follies costumes and designed musical sequences for Fox, joining Twentieth Century Fox in 1943 and signed with MGM in 1944. Rose sold both custom and ready to wear at her House of Helen Rose, and her lines were sold across the country into the 1970s.

Joan Sutton Straus was born in Canada, becoming one of its best known journalists. She has served many non-profit boards and received numerous awards for public service.

Margaret Swarthout was born in Sydney, Australia and danced at the Royal Ballet Company in England for nine years. She worked closely with many of the 20th century's greatest choreographers and in 1966 joined the faculty of the Harkness House for Ballet in New York City to begin her teaching career. In 1975, she became affiliated with the Marin Ballet, becoming Master Teacher and Coach, and then Artistic Director.

Roy E. Tilles was director, president, and general manager of Gotham Hosiery Co. Inc. He produced lingerie, tricot knit nylon slips, nightgowns, and negligees which were all accepted by leading stores in the country.

Ivana Trump, born in Czechoslovakia in 1949, is a former model and ex-wife of Donald Trump. She and Trump were a part of New York City's social elite during the 80s; the two divorced in 1992. Later in her life she published The Best Is Yet To Come: Coping With Divorce and Enjoying Life Again.

Chester Weinberg was born in New York and graduated from the Parsons School of Design in 1951. After working for a series of Seventh Avenue manufacturers, he started his own company in 1966. His designs were soft and elegant - ruffles were his signature. In 1978, he joined Calvin Klein as a consultant and became head designer of Calvin Klein jeans in 1981. He won a Coty award in 1970.

Sylvia Weinstock was an American baker and cake decorator. She was known for making delicious, multi-tiered wedding cakes decorated with botanically accurate sugar flowers.

Sidney Winters was in charge of men's sportswear for Carnegie, Ltd., and later became appointed general manager of all departments and personnel for the Hattie Carnegie Inc. retail establishment.

Mary Wells Lawrence, born in 1928, is an American businesswoman who made her mark in advertising during an age when men dominated the field. She cofounded the advertising agency Wells, Rich, Greene Inc. and was noted for her campaigns for Alka Seltzer and Ford Motor Company. Wells was also the first female to be CEO of a company traded on the Big Board of the New York Stock Exchange.

Peter Wrigley and Chuck Howard formed their own company after co-directing the Anne Klein Studio. Together they designed under the Mark of the Lion label in the mid 1970s. Their designs consisted of men's and women's ready-to-wear and accessories.

Julia Coburn worked in a mid-western department store until being hired by Harper's Bazaar in 1927. At Bazaar, Coburn worked as the promotional manager. Three years later, the Hearst Newspaper company hired Coburn to be their Director of Fashion. Later, Coburn became the Fashion Editor of Ladies Home Journal. Coburn became the President of the Fashion Group in the 1930s. In 1937, she and Miss Tobé founded the Tobé-Coburn School. This was seen as one of the important moments that helped solidify New York as a center for fashion. The school prepared students with High School or college education for careers in the fashion field. After being bought and sold to a few different individuals, the school was incorporated into the Wood School in 1993. Julia Coburn retired and moved to Poughkeepsie in the 1970s.

Ruth Reeves was a textile designer, educator and painter active in New York City and India. She is best known for designing rugs for Radio City Music Hall.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Wellesley College, she received a degree in Law from Yale University. During the summer breaks, Hillary worked in politics; in 1971, she traveled to Washington D.C. to assist with U.S. Senator Walter Mondale's sub-committee on migrant workers; the following year she worked on the campaign team for Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern on the west coast. A year after graduating with honors in 1973, she was brought on to serve on the presidential impeachment inquiry staff, advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal. During this time Hillary was dating Bill Clinton, whom she met at Yale. The couple married in 1975 and their daughter, Chelsea Victoria, was born five years later. In 1977, Clinton joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. Bill Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas in 1979. From 1979 to 1992, Hillary Clinton acted as First Lady of the State while continuing to work at the Rose Law Firm. In addition to this work, she was an advocate for many children's causes. In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States. Hillary proved to be a practical First Lady and wife. After leaving the White House, Clinton became the first wife of a president to seek and win public office, gaining the U.S. Senate seat from New York. In 2007, while still working in the Senate, Clinton announced that she would run for President in the 2008 election. Although not becoming the Democratic nominee, the Democratic party won the presidency. The president elect Barack Obama nominated Clinton as Secretary of State. She accepted, becoming the 67th U.S. Secretary of State by the Senate on January 21, 2009. In 2015, Clinton again announced that she would run for president. In mid-2016, Clinton became presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, becoming the first woman to be nominated on either the Republican or Democratic political party's ticket. Although winning the popular vote, in November 2016, Clinton lost the Electoral College vote to the Republican nominee, Donald Trump. After her defeat, Clinton withdrew from the public eye. In September of 2017, she published "What Happened," a book disecting and rationalizing her 2016 defeat.

Jeffrey Buchman works as a professor in the Advertising and Marketing department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. In the 1990s, he was the head of the Advertising Communications, Marketing Communications and Direct Marketing Department. He began teaching in the video department at FIT in 1974. His father Sid Buchman also taught at FIT.

Joseph Costelli was the chair of the Math and Science Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology during the end of the 20th century. Costelli began teaching at FIT in 1975. Costelli is the author of the textbook, "Introductory Biology and Molecular Approach."