Cox, Anne, 1918-2005
Biography
Anne Delafield Finch Cox was born in Westhampton Beach on March 13, 1918, and graduated from the Chapin School, where she was later a trustee and president of the alumnae association. Cox was a New York socialite who designed high fashion for high society in the 1950's; she died in 2005 in Westhampton Beach, N.Y at the age of 86. Cox offered her own designs in a boutique on 57th Street in Manhattan. She was also an occasional fashion and society columnist for The Herald Tribune and a fashion adviser for Bergdorf Goodman. Later she worked as a real estate developer in the Hamptons. Mrs. Cox was descended on her mother's side from the socially prominent Livingston family. She was a patron of charities, including the Association for the Relief of Respectable, Aged, Indigent Females, of which she was president, and she was long the chairwoman or a co-chairwoman of the annual International Debutante Ball. A sheet accompanying the sketches says that Anne Cox Inc. succeeded Farquharson & Weelock and Herman Tappe in business in about 1957. Harry Collins was an assocaite in the business and Mme. Jeanne and Mme. Marie, formerly of Clara's, were on the staff of fitters. The business was at 23 West 57th Street.
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