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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.

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 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.

Electronic Learning Facility (ELF) began as part of the Teaching Institute at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the 1980s. The program aimed to introduce faculty from the school to computer technology.

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 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.

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 (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.

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.

National Retail Merchants Association 1958-1990
National Retail Federation 1990-

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.

Oscilloscope Laboratories is a Brooklyn-based film distribution company.

As an art student, Koehler (1885-1960) studied under Kolomon Moser at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna and later joined Moser's Wiener Werkstätte and the German and Austrian Werkbund. Koehler's work in fashion included not only illustrations for the Wiener Werkstätte and the fashion magazine Wiener Mode, but also textile design and at least one collaboration with Emilie Flöge's Schwestern Flöge fashion house. Koehler moved to Sweden in 1931 where she worked extensively as a costume designer and book illustrator. Her illustrations for children's books are of special note.

Ben Gershel was coat and suit house. "From the nineteen‐thirties through the fifties it was regarded as one of the top flight houses, along with Traina-Norell, Ben Zuckerman and Monte‐Sano and Pruzan."

Andrea Kleine is the author of the novels, CALF, a Publishers' Weekly Best Fiction Book of 2015; and EDEN, named one of "Summer's Smartest and Most Innovative Thrillers" by Vanity Fair and a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award in LGBTQ fiction. Her work includes fiction, essays, performances, and, most recently, films. She is a five-time MacDowell fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Kleine worked in the FIT Library for many years until 2023, initiating the Soul Fashion Club oral history project in that time.

"Henri Bendel, Inc. (pronounced BEN-del), established in 1895,[3] was a women's department store based in New York City which in its later history sold women's handbags, jewelry, luxury fashion accessories, home fragrances and gifts.[4] Its New York City store was located at 10 West 57th street. In 1985, when purchased by Limited, the new owner moved the store to 712 Fifth Avenue." Wikipedia

Lanvin is a French multinational high fashion house, which was founded by Jeanne Lanvin in 1889. It is the third oldest French fashion house still in operation. In 1990, the house was taken over by the Orcofi Group, then sold to l’Oréal in 1996. In 2001, Shaw-Lan Wang, a Taiwanese media magnate, took Lanvin private again. On 14 March 2016, Bouchra Jarrar was appointed as Creative Director for Women’s Collection, replacing Alber Elbaz, who had transformed the company over the previous fourteen years. Bouchra's departure was announced on 6 July 2017. She was succeeded as artistic director by Olivier Lapidus, who left the company without a named successor on 22 March 2018. Men’s Collections have been headed by Lucas Ossendrijver since 2005. Bruno Sialelli has been the head designer for both the men's and the women's collections since 2019.

Morris & Co. is a decorating company started by William Morris and his friends in 1861. Originally named Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., they provided beautiful, handcrafted products and furnishings for the home and aimed to be affordable and accessible to all. They became most well-known for their wallpaper and fabric designs, and after 150 years of business became simply known as Morris & Co. Following World War One and World War Two, Morris & Co. went into voluntary liquidation in 1940. They were eventually bought by another home furnishings company, Arthur Sanderson & Sons, that same year where they presently remain.

My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series, airing originally on ABC from 1994-1995. Starring Claire Danes and Jerod Leto, the series was created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.

The National Council for the Arts, Sciences, and Professions was a United States-based socialist organization of the 1950s. The council sponsored the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in 1949.

Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale got their start in the fashion industry in 1860 as the purveyors of ladies' hoop skirts on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In 1872, they launched a department store called the East Side Bazaar which offered a variety of imported European fashions. Changing the name to Bloomingdales and expanding to 59th St. and Lexington Ave. in 1886, the store became well-known for its large plate glass window displays and dynamic ad campaigns. By the 1920s, Bloomingdales occupied the entire block of its 59th St. location, establishing itself as a premier shopping destination in New York City.

Mary Quant was a British fashion designer. Quant studied art education and illustration at Goldsmiths, where she graduated in 1953. In 1955, she and her husband, aristocrat Alexander Plunket Greene, and lawyer-turned-photographer Archie McNair opened a boutique named Bazaar, where they stocked Quant's own designs. After expanding and opening a second store in 1957, she signed a design contract with American department-store chain JC Penney in 1962. Quant is widely seen as very influential in 1960's and 1970's fashion and is often credited as inventing the mini-skirt, which was heavily popularized on '60's It-model Twiggy. Often cited as the 'mother of the miniskirt,' Quant created ready-to-wear designs for the hip, youth scene which was later dubbed Youthquake. She was granted an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1966 and granted the title of Dame in 2015 for her services to British fashion.

President of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers.

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Reem Acra was born in Beirut and after studying business at the American University of Beirut, moved to New York to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology where she graduated magne cum laude and won awards for her senior collection. Acra subsequently studied fashion design at ESMOD in Paris and briefly worked in Hong Kong and Taiwan before launching her own bridal wear brand Reem Acra New York in 1997. The brand continues to be known for its bridal looks and high-end RTW eveningwear.

Michelle Handelman uses video, live performance and photography to make confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness.

Her background is a study in opposites–raised during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Handelman split her time between Chicago, where her mother was a fixture in the art world, and Los Angeles, where her father was a player in the counterculture sex industry.

Over the years Handelman has voraciously traversed both these worlds, developing a body of work that investigates ways of looking at the forbidden and revealing dark, subconscious layers of outsider agency.

Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was one of the first modern department stores. It was a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1986 to 2011. Now the property of LVMH, it sells a wide range of high-end goods, including food in an adjacent building at 38, rue de Sèvres, called La Grande Épicerie de Paris.

Jean Louis Berthault, born in 1907, was an Academy Award-winning designer who created some of the most memorable costumes and fashions worn by Hollywood stars of the 1940's, 50's and 60's. After training in Paris with the designer Drecoll, he came to the United States in 1936 where he was hired as one of the lead designers at Hattie Carnegie alongside Norman Norell and Claire McCardell. The following year he designed the Carnegie suit, one of the first fashions to become popular as an American name design. Louis became known for designing costumes and garments for famous Hollywood celebrities including Lana Turner, Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Betty Grable, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn. He was responsible for the glittering ''beads and skin'' dress worn by Marilyn Monroe for her performance of ''Happy Birthday'' to President John F. Kennedy in Madison Square Garden in 1962. He became the head designer at Columbia Pictures in 1943, then moved on to Universal studios later on. At Columbia, where he became a mentor to James Galanos who was working as his assistant, he was the only costume designer at the time to be given full film credit. In the early 1960's, Mr. Louis severed his relationship with the studios, opened a salon in Beverly Hills, California, where he continued to design for the movies on a freelance basis. Over the course of his career, he was nominated for 13 additional Academy Awards. Louis retired in 1988, and passed away in 1997 in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 89.

Born in New York City, Lee Evans studied fine arts at Ohio University and was an honor graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology. After graduation, she worked as a sketcher for 3 years at Junior League Frocks. In 1949 she began designing a popular-priced collection of cotton junior dresses for Jerry Greenwald, Inc. In 1955 she joined the firm of Mr. Mort, where she specialized in casual wear. In that same year she won the annual Ribbon Designer's Award and created an original design in silk for the Japan Textile Products Exporter's Association. Designing under her own label, she also worked for Leonard Arkin & Son. In 1969 she joined PLW, a division of Gay Gibson, Inc., and the next year was named vice-president for design. In that capacity she developed designs for younger misses' dresses and pants.

Formed by a merger of the New York Couture Group and the American Fashion Business Council in February of 1966, the NYCBC's founding chairperson was Adolf Klein of Townley, Inc.

Estelle Ellis was born on November 12, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Hunter College in 1940, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a minor in Journalism, Ellis began a career in publishing. Ellis was crucial in the founding of Seventeen magazine in 1943, assisting Helen Valentine with design and advertising for the magazine. In 1958, Ellis founded Business Image, Incorporated, a creative marketing firm that stressed the importance of market and product positioning. Her company worked primarily with Condé Nast publications but other businesses, such as Yves Saint-Laurent Fragrances, Evan-Picone, AT&T, and Scoville, hired Business Image as well.

Beginning in the mid-1960s, Ellis began working with the Fashion Institute of Technology, creating programs and fundraising campaigns to help with financial support. During the 1990s, Ellis focused on writing, co-authoring At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live With and Care for Their Libraries (1995), At Home with Art: How Art Lovers Live With and Care for Their Treasures (1999), and The Booklover's Repair Kit: First Aid for Home Libraries (2000). Estelle Ellis passed away on July 12, 2012.

Annette Green was raised by her mother. She was an only child and lived with her mother in her grandparents house. Green attended NYU and the New School, where she studied Journalism. Her first professional job was at American Druggist, a Hearst publication. She worked as an assistant for George Bender and had her own column marketed to teenage girls. In the mid 1950s, Hearst publications paid for her tuition at a night school where she continued to study journalism. She moved from American Druggist to the DuBarry Success School news letter, where she was the editor of the publication. However, she was unhappy here because of a fraught relationship with her boss. She moved into a position in sales training, working under Chris Chiossi, a woman Green admired. Green wrote speeches for Chiossi. Mcfadden magazine offered Green a position as beauty editor, which Green accepted. She worked there for about a year. She then got a call from an acquaintance telling her that the recommended her for a job as Assistant Women's Page Editor at Scripps Howard. She took the position but was later scouted by Jack Mohr, president of Lenthéric. Mohr wanted Green to be the Publicity Director of the company. Even though she knew nothing about the job, Green accepted. When Lenthéric merged with Olin Mathieson, Mohr left and Green moved into the cooperate department.

Soon, Green left and started her own company, Annette Green Associates, in 1960. Her first major account was Altman, Stroller; Green handled their fashion accounts. A year later, Mohr asked Green to help save the Fragrance Foundation. The Fragrance Foundation was founded in 1949 by the fragrance departments of Chanel, Caron, Guerlain, Coty, and Helena Rubinstein. It was originally conceived as a way to promote the everyday usage of perfume in the United States. By 1961, the foundation was failing, with very few members left. Mohr wanted Green to revive the foundation. She slowly but successfully acquired members, old and new, such as Edouard Cournand of Lanvin and Gregory Thomas of Chanel. Green also wrote a directory of all the fragrance businesses in the industry. Thanks to Green, the Fragrance Foundation became fully established. She continued working with the foundation throughout the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Green was president of the foundation from 1963 to 2003. Under Green's supervision, the Olfactory Research Fund was created to support the work of clinical psychologists.

In addition to her work for the foundation, Green wanted to create a program that would teach cosmetics and fragrance practices. She reached out to Shirley Goodman at FIT, who in turn, invited Green to teach a class on the subject one day a week. Dean Jack Rittenberg suggested the creation of an entire program. Hazel Bishop became the head of the program. Green started the Cosmetic/Fragrance ACTION council at FIT, which was made up of professionals to oversee the curriculum. In the mid 1990s, Green published a book, along with fashion journalist Linda Dyett, on jewelry that held fragrance.

"A leader in the fragrance industry since the 1960s, Annette Green originated the FiFi Award in 1972 and is currently President Emeritus of The Fragrance Foundation." http://theanglemag.com/beautify/science-scent/

"Annette Green serves as Business Development Consultant at RMJ Laboratories, Inc. Ms. Green serves as President Emeritus of The Fragrance Foundation. She is considered as an industry futurist, oversaw the fortunes of The Fragrance Foundation for over 40 years and is credited with conceiving and producing the prestigious “FiFi” Awards and for establishing an international presence for the Foundation" -Bloomberg

Arnold Scaasi was born in Canada in 1930 and is known for dressing five First Ladies, using French couture techniques. Former First Lady Barbara Bush says, "His dresses brought me great joy - whether they were for a state dinner or just a simple suit I could wear anywhere." Scaasi donated over 100 garments and sold his a portion of his archives to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 2009, the remainder reside at FIT Special Collections.

Edward Moir was born in Scotland in 1846 and moved with his family to Canada when he was 10. After working in and later managing several mills in Canada, he moved to the United States in 1884 to work for Crown Mills in Marcellus, N.Y. He was a superintendent from 1884-1899 and then President from 1899 until his death in 1932. Moir's son John M. Moir was president of the mill from 1932 until it closed in 1961. Edward Moir was also president of the Carded Woolen Manufacturers' Association from 1909 to 1932, the entire lifetime of the organization.

The Crown Mills Company originated around 1878, and in 1890 it merged with the Marcellus Woolen Mills Company to form the Crown Mills Corporation. Edward Moir began at Crown Mills in 1884 and became president in 1899. During his time at Crown Mills, Moir expanded the operation by purchasing additional buildings and increasing the number of looms from 20 to 108. Operation included dyeing, carding, spinning, and weaving. Moir's son John M. Moir was president of the mill from 1932 until it closed in 1961.

Zineta Blank is a former model and the founder of Visage International Management, a modeling agency which has represented Carmen Dell’Oreffice, Niki Taylor, Jerry Hall, Maryam d' Abo and Anouk.

Mary Blair was an artist, animator and set designer best known for her work for Walt Disney. During the 1940s and 50s, Blair animated and led the animation teams which created Disney classics including Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Fantasia and Dumbo among others. She also contributed character, mural and set designs for Disney theme parks including It's a Small World. She later worked as an illustrator for Little Golden Books for children and designed stage sets for theatrical productions.

"The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. It was part of the Black Power movement, which broke from the integrationist goals and nonviolent protest tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The BPP name was inspired by the use of the black panther as a symbol that had recently been used by the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an independent Black political party in Alabama." ~ The US National Archives and Record Administration

Best & Co. was a department store founded in New York City in 1879 by Albert Best. Part of the 'Ladies' Mile' shopping district, the stalwart Manhattan store expanded its footprint with locations in tony suburbs in the tri-state area before expanding to Washington, D.C. and Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1966, the chain included 20 US-based locations when it was acquired by a fashion conglomerate, McCrory's who closed and liquidated the Best & Co. properties during the 1970s.

Susan Berr was an American fashion model represented during the 1960s and 1970s by Ford Models and appeared in print campaigns as the face of Breck shampoo. Berr now lives and works in Los Angeles as an interior designer going by Susan Sager.

Couturier Augusta Bernard elided her name (as was fashionable at the moment) in 1919 when she opened her couture house at 3, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. By the 1930s, she had established herself as a top Parisian couture house known for her beautifully made, pale colored evening gowns, which often functioned as blank canvases for her clients' elaborate jewels. At the same time, amidst the Depression of the 1930s, client's began dodging their bills and the house began to suffer. Madame Bernard elected to retire, closing her couture house in 1934.

Shari Belefonte is an American model and actress. Her career began in the early 1980s as a print model, and she appeared in television commercials for Calvin Klein Jeans. As an actor, she was a favorite of television producer Aaron Spelling who regularly cast her in his productions. Belefonte is the daughter of Marguerite and Harry Belefonte; the latter being the famed singer and performer of the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Joy Bell is an fashion model who revived her illustrious career of her youth in the 1970s and 1980s, in the 2000s to fill a gap in the market for middle-aged models. As such she has been the face of Oil of Olay costmetics, Maybelline and has been featured on the cover of Times magazine.

Born in Mexico in 1903, Ben-Hur Baz was an illustrator known for his pin-up and glamor-girl illustrations which appeared in Esquire during the 1940s and 50s. Extremely prolific, he also worked as a commercial illustrator for Pall Mall and Lucky Strike.

Jean Barthet was a French milliner and member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. Launching his line in 1949, he provided hat for haute couturiers including Claude Montana, Karl Lagerfeld and Emanuel Ungaro.

Born in Cuba circa 1947, Pedro Barrios' family fled persecution by the Castro regime in 1961 and settled in New York City where Pedro attended the High School of Art and Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 1967, he joined the staff of Women's Wear Daily as a fashion illustrator before relocating to Greece, Spain, England and Italy before settling in the remote regions of the rain forest in Puerto Rico. So in demand were Barrios' services as an illustrator, WWD and department stores including Wanamakers and Stern Bros. would send merchandise and models to a neighboring town for Barrios to sketch. His success as a top fashion illustrator allowed him care for his family, purchasing a home for his mother and putting his sisters through medical and law school.