Mallis, Fern, 1948- (1948-)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1948-
Biography
Fern Mallis is a fashion consultant and creator of New York Fashion Week (originally called ‘Seventh on Sixth’). From 1991-2001, Mallis was the executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). In 1993, she began the initiative to organize Seventh on Sixth, where American fashion designers to display their clothing in a centralized manner. After NYFW was acquired by IMG in 2001, Mallis became a senior vice president and ambassador at IMG Fashion, through which she was able to expand and add fashion weeks to other cities including Los Angeles, Melbourne, Miami, and Berlin. She left IMG in 2010 and now runs her own fashion consulting business, Fern Mallis LLC.
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Fern Mallis interview, 2019 July 10, 2019 July 10
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.10.29
Scope and Contents
Phyllis Dillon speaks with Fern Mallis about her career in the fashion industry. Mallis discusses her time as a young woman working in the coveted Guest Editorship position at Madamoiselle magazine, and her time living at the Barbazon Hotel for Women. She goes on to discuss her time working for the magazine as an employee in her years after college, and the other jobs she took after leaving Madamoiselle. She then describes how she learned about the Council of Fashion Designers of America...
Dates:
2019 July 10
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