Oral history transcripts, [ca. 1980-1986]

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Oral history transcripts, [ca. 1980-1986]

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Interviews conducted in the 1980s with ca. seventy notable fashion designers and others connected with the fashion industry, concerning their lives, businesses, and creative work. Bonnie Cashin, Harriet Meserole, Fred Pomerantz of Leslie Fay, Inc., Hazel Bishop, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Vera Maxwell, Norman Norell, Mollie Parnis, Andrew Goodman, and John Weitz are among those interviewed. New interview transcripts are added on an ongoing basis as they are made.

ca. 6 linear ft.

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Goodman, Andrew E.

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Leslie Fay, Inc.

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Maxwell, Vera, 1901-

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Cashin, Bonnie

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Bonnie Cashin was born September 28, 1908 in Fresno, Calif. In her teens she worked as a fashion illustrator and dance costume designer for Los Angeles dance troupe, Fanchon and Marco. She briefly studied drawing at the Chouinard School of Art in Los Angeles. In 1933 she moved to New York to design costumes for the Roxyette danceline at the Roxy Theater. In 1933, and again in 1935, Cashin studied drawing at the Art Students' League. From 1937 until 1942, she designed for the coat and suit manufa...

Hearst, Austine McDonnell, 1918-1991

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Austine McDonnell Hearst was a former reporter who was married to the editor-in-chief of the Hearst newspapers. She was born Austine Byrne McDonnell on 23 Nov 1918 in Boston, Mass. She was a graduate of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in Baltimore. Her first marriage, to the designer Igor Cassini, ended in divorce. She and William Randolph Hearst Jr., chairman of the Hearst Corporation, were married in 1948. Mrs. Hearst, who left the newspaper business in 1956, wrote "The Horses of San Si...

Meserole, Harriet, 1893-1989.

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Weitz, John.

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Pomerantz, Fred.

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Parnis, Mollie

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Norell, Norman, 1900-1972

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Norman Norell, born Norman David Levinson, was often called the "Dean of American fashion". Know equally for his simple, extremely well-made, pared down day clothes and for his dramatic looks for evening, he had the rare ability to translate the characteristics of French couture into American ready-to-wear. Norell was the first designer to win a Coty American Fashion Critics Award (in 1943) and the first to be elected to the Coty Award Hall of Fame. Both Halston and Adolfo designed millinery to ...

Bishop, Hazel, 1906-

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