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Maggy Rouff was the professional name of Marguerite Besancon de Wagner. Rouff established her own couture house sometime around 1928 after getting her start in fashion working for her parents who were the directors of Angès-Drécoll. Rouff was known for a feminine feel for her fashions which often incorporated ruffles and lace and chic sportswear. She also worked as a Hollywood costume designer creating looks for the likes of Greta Garbo, Theda Bara and Pola Negri.

Bryan was born in Orlando, Florida in the late 1940s and soon after his family moved to Virginia. His passion for fashion began during his adolescence when he discovered the 1930s through Hollywood movies. He studied Art History at the University of Virginia and went to law school at the George Washington University before settling to New York in 1968. He worked at the Abraham and Strauss Department store in Brooklyn until 1973 when he started his career with Fairchild Publications. He was the fashion editor of Men's Wear Magazine from 1973 to 1983 and "M" The Civilized Man from 1983 to 1993, and Men's fashion director for "W" Magazine in 1993. He then joined he New York Times in 1995 until 2006. He contributed articles to the CFDA Third volume of American Fashion in 2008.

Sue Ellen Allen is an American jewelry designer, writer and prison reform activist. Her jewelry designs have been worn by Barbara Bush and Margaret Thatcher. During the early 2000s, Allen was an international fugitive along with her husband, fleeing securities fraud charges. In 2002 or 2003, she was sentenced to prison and subsequently released in 2009. Since then, Allen has been an activist for prison reform and was hosted by President Obama for his State of the Union address in 2016 which addressed mass incarceration rates.

Born Linda Marie on May 27, 1940 in Akron, Ohio, Linda Allard is a fashion designer known for her work at Ellen Tracy. Following her graduation from Kent State University in 1962, Allard was hired as an assistant designer for the brand Ellen Tracy, which was owned by Herbert Gallen. In 1964, Allard was promoted to Head Designer, but it would be another twenty years before her name was added to the Ellen Tracy label in 1984. Allard married Herbert Gallen--Ellen Tracy's founder and chairman--in March, 2000. Allard has acted as a design critic for students at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

André Studios was a sketch, or croquis, subscription service for garment industry professionals, located at 570 Seventh Avenue in New York City. The company was founded by designer Pearl Levy (Pearl Alexander Lipman) and her business partner, salesman Leonard Schwartzbach, sometime during the year 1930. André Studios was one of the many design services which relied heavily on copying and adapting existing models in order to supply a sufficient, up-to-date product to their customers.

Pearl Alexander Lipman (née Pearl Levy) was the co-owner and designer for the trend forecasting subscription services André Studios and Creator Studios. At the age of twelve, she sold her first designs to children’s wear manufacturer Joseph Love. At seventeen, she started her own business before studying fashion and design at Cooper Union and the Traphagan School. Levy was employed as a designer by coat manufacturer Rubin Endler, Inc. before striking out on her own. In 1930, Levy married Albert Louis “A. L.” Alexander, a police reporter-turned-radio announcer. After her marriage, Levy became known, both personally and professionally, as Pearl Levy Alexander, Pearl L. Alexander and Pearl Alexander. She eventually married a second time, and by the early 1960s was going by Mrs. Pearl Lipman.

Dr. Fernando Aleu was born in Spain in 1929. He moved from Spain to the University of Iowa for a residency as a neurologist. While working at NYU in the neurology department, he and his business partner started a fragrance company called Compar. His business was created in November, 1969 as a way to distribute the scents of his friend, the designer Paco Rabanne. Since then, the company has worked with many other brands including Carolina Herrera, Prada and Nina Ricci. In 1970, a fragrance his company produced, Calantra, was a nominated for an award by the Fragrance Foundation, and in 1976 Aleu was offered as position as president of the Fragrance Foundation. He served as president for a total of fourteen years, and also held the position of President of the Fragrance Foundation Research Fund.

Larry Aldrich was born in 1906 to Russian immigrant parents in New York. In 1924, he attended Columbia college to earn a law degree but decided to pursue fashion after a summer job in the garment district. Aldrich opened his first fashion firm in 1927, but his name did not appear on the clothing label until the 1940s. The firm continued its operations until 1966 when it was sold. After retiring, he focused solely on collecting art, a hobby of his since 1937. Aldrich founded the Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1967. Aldrich died in 2001 at the age of 95. During his career in fashion, Aldrich acted as president of the New York Couture Group.

Founded in either 1951 or 1955, Alberto & Roy is an Italian trend-forecasting company which specializes in textiles. The company is known for its "sensory books, which are extremely rich in materials and ideas: hundreds of real fabric samples, real yarns, real colours."

Akris is a Swiss fashion house founded in 1922 as an apron atelier by Alice Kriemler-Schoch. Located in the textile epicenter of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Kriemler-Schoch used local textiles often incorporated the fine machine embroidery for which the town is renowned. In 1944, Alice's son, Max, joined the business and relaunched it as Akris (a riff on his mother's initials), a full-fledged ready-to-wear brand. During the 1970s, the company engaged in partnerships with Givenchy and Ted Lapidus. Upon his father's death, Albert Kriemler took over as creative director furthering Akris' status as a luxury brand. Signatures of the house include the use of double-faced fabrics, horsehair textiles and the signature embroideries of St. Gallen.

Agnès-Drécoll was a French fashion house formed by the 1931 merger of Maison Agnès, an undergarment and cloak specialist and the dressmaking firm Drécoll, which was first established in Vienna and, later, Paris, under the direction of Mme. and M. Besançon de Wagner. The Besançon de Wagners' daughter, Marguerite, got her start in fashion working for them and later established her own couture house, Maggy Rouff.

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.

Cuban-born Adolfo Sardiña, best known as Adolfo, began his successful fashion career in Paris as an apprentice to Balenciaga. American buyers admired his work and encouraged him to come to New York. In 1953, he became a designer for the milliner Emme. Adolfo hats earned him his first COTY Award in 1955.

In 1962, Adolfo started his own business. A few years later, on the theory that if he could design a hat he could design anything, Adolfo started making Chanel-inspired suits and unusual evening gowns. In 1969, he was presented with a special COTY Award for his contribution to design from head-to-toe. Adolfo carried this practice further in 1976, designing head-to-toe menswear looks for Leon of Paris.

“A person can look put together without appearing too rigid or too extravagant, “says Adolfo. “If people are astute enough to combine different clothes with flair and style, they can create their own fashion. We all must maintain the freedom to show off individuality. Fashion should be revolutionary, but always in the direction of good taste.” Adolfo clients include First Lady Nancy Reagan, Babe Paley, Gloria Vanderbilt and C.Z. Guest.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Saks Fifth Avenue executive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

Designed Fenton First shoes for Saks Fifth Avenue.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

"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/

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.

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