Fashion business
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
Gothé, Inc. sketches, 1940-1966
Collection
Identifier: SC.70
Scope and Contents
This collection contains bound sketchbooks with pencil sketches of garment designs for resort, evening, and day wear for fall and spring seasons.
Dates:
1940-1966
Found in:
Special Collections and FIT Archive
Mollie Parnis interview, 1982 June 2, 1982 June 02
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.1.89
Scope and Contents
This interview opens with Mollie Parnis talking about her latest project, a prize for three young journalists that she began in memory of her son. She then segues into the origins of her company and her early biography. She commenced her career by designing blouses after being frustrated at the quality of the designs while working in a design showroom on Madison Avenue. The Parnis-Livingston company began in a studio Seventh Avenue about five-years after Mollie Parnis and Leon Livingston...
Dates:
1982 June 02
The Roundtable of Fashion Executives records, 1949-2011
Collection
Identifier: SC.358
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records of The Roundtable of Fashion Executives and the life of its founder Faith Keane Reichert, 1949-2011.
Dates:
1949-2011
Found in:
Special Collections and FIT Archive