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FEATURE
Night of Stars
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LOOKING BACK
Mom, Pop and Me
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FG TALK
2009
Dare to Design Your Own Future
NIGHT OF STARS
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FRONTLINERS
Truth or Dare
THE ALCHEMISTS
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IN MEMORIAM
Helen Galland
Sheila Levy Chefetz
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RTW COLLECTIONS
Trend Report, Spring/Summer 2009
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BULLETIN BOARD
NEW MEMBERS LIST
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
THE PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
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Chair
Adrienne Youngstein Gruberg,
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Creative Strategist, AY & A
Co-Chairs
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Wendi Winters
Freelance Writer, Reporter and Public Relations Consultant
QuantumStep, Inc.
Wendy D'Amico
Creative Consultant
Committee
Arlene Eisner, Cover New York
Joyce Kauf, Creative Content Strategist
Katie Kretschmer, Departments Editor, Women’s Day SIPs
Dominique Pasqua, Creative Director, PasquaDirect
Foreign Correspondents
Christine Jackson
Yolanda Serra
Graphic Design
Debora DeCarlo, DDC Graphics
Photography
Miriam Driot, FGI Director of Special Events
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1. Superstar Donatella Versace with presenters Jennifer Lopez and Prince
2. Winner of The Hudson’s Bay Trading Company Fashion Oracle Award, Harold Koda, with presenter Karl Lagerfeld
3. Philippe Starck and Christian Louboutin, architecture and fashion honorees, respectively, who presented to each other
4. Barneys’ ever-witty Simon Doonan hosted the event
5. Fashion Star Carla Sozzani with presenter Stefano Tonchi
6. Fashion Star Franca Sozzani with presenter Jonathan Newhouse
7. Karl Lagerfeld with Superstar Donatella Versace
8. Beauty honoree Bobbi Brown with presenter Bruce Weber
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9. Fashion Star Christopher Bailey of Burberrys with presenter Kate Bosworth
10. Rosemarie Bravo presented the Corporate Leadership award to Natalie Massenet of NET-A-PORTER.com
11. Mamie Gummer presented the Humanitarian Award to Bill McComb of the Liz Claiborne Foundation
12. Fashion Star Francisco Costa with presenter Ashley Olsen
13. Entertainment honoree Harvey Weinstein with presenter Tim Gunn
14. Sustainability honoree John Paul DeJoria of John Paul Mitchell Systems with his wife
Inset: presenter Marcia Gay Harden
15. Jennifer Lopez
NIGHT OF STARS
FGI’s Alchemists bring Wall Street
a Night of Splendor and Stars
“Fashion is a harmony between beauty and utility.”
Karl Lagerfeld,
FGI Night of Stars, October 23, 2008
Living up to its billing as Night of Stars, Fashion
Group International’s 25th awards Gala, on October
23, 2008 was among the season’s “heaviest duty”
designer-and-celeb events. This was Stars with a
capital “S”!
Honoring the best of the best within the worlds of
fashion, architecture, beauty and entertainment,
FGI president Margaret Hayes defined the gala’s
silver anniversary theme, The Alchemists, as
those “who are able to transform something
common into something special,” and promised an
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“evening of magic” to dazzle this year’s packed
house at Cipriani Wall Street. Hayes concluded
her remarks by thanking the evening’s sponsors:
Hudson’s Bay Trading Company, Arcade
Marketing, bebe, Cotton Inc., Geoffrey Beene,
Givaudan, InStyle , Movado and Taubman.
Walking the red carpet were, among others, Anna
Wintour, Stephanie Seymour, Bruce Weber, Isaac
Mizrahi, Georgina Chapman and Ruben and Isabel
Toledo. Lipstick Jungle star Lindsay Price arrived
wearing Versace and Starter Wife star Debra Messing
was elegant as always in revealing, classic black.
Enough? Maybe, but by no means all: We haven’t
even gotten to the presenters and honorees.
New parents Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony
walked the red carpet, with J.Lo, a surprise guest
and presenter, wearing an asymmetrical,
lavender Versace confection. Actress Kate Bosworth,
wearing Burberry Prorsum, walked the red carpet
with Christopher Bailey, to whom she would later
present an award. In Calvin Klein, fashionista Ashley
Olsen joined Francisco Costa as they arrived on the
red-carpet; later she presented him with his Star
honoree award. Other Star honorees were the
Sozzani sisters, Carla and Franca, whose awards
were handed off by Stefano Tonchi and Jonathan
Newhouse, respectively.
Christian Louboutin was presented his award
by Philippe Starck who, in an entertaining
switch-a-roo, accepted his award from his long
time friend...Louboutin. Photographer Bruce Weber
handed a beaming Bobbi Brown her beauty award,
while Tim Gunn presented to Harvey Weinstein.
As Marcia Gay Harden presented John Paul DeJoria
with the Sustainability Award, she praised the
“depth and breath of his philanthropy” and lauded
him as “one of the first to think about sustainability.”
John Paul noted, “You must have passion in life.”
The legendary Karl Lagerfeld presented the
Hudson’s Bay Trading Company Fashion Oracle
Award to Harold Koda, curator-in-charge of the
Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum
of Art. The Corporate Leadership Award went to
Natalie Massenet of NET-A-PORTER.com, and the
Humanitarian Award was presented by Mamie
Gummer to Bill McComb of the Liz Claiborne
Foundation.
Don’t be fooled by all the other stars in attendance,
this was Superstar honoree Donatella Versace’s night
all the way. She arrived at the star-studded affair with
daughter Allegra, both in dresses from the Versace
Spring ’09 collection. Miss Versace was presented her
Superstar Award by none other than rock stars Prince
and Jennifer Lopez.
“I’m proud to receive this award in America—
particularly since three Italian women tonight,
all blondes, are receiving awards,” Versace said,
referring to fellow honorees, the Sozzani sisters. “I
wanted to be a designer all my life,” said Versace,
whose late brother Gianni received the same award
in 1995. “I am very honored,” she added, saying,
“Gianni showed me that fashion is magical. It’s been
a magical night for me.”
The night’s host, Simon Doonan of Barneys, later
wrote in the Observer , “the Fashion Group
International Awards is to the Council of Fashion
Designers of America Awards what the Golden
Globes is to the Oscars—that is, the naughty, cuter
little sister.”
How uplifting to bring a night with this magnitude
and magnificent accomplishment and splendorous
success to, shall we say, an otherwise wailing Wall
Street.”
–– Dominique Pasqua
√Editor-in-Chief, Crystal Publishing Group, Inc.
[email protected]
Rising Star c o c k t a i l p a r t y
The sleek and elegant Rouge Tomate restaurant
set the stage for a festive start to the holidays. FGI
members and Rising Star nominees got the chance
to mix, mingle and toast the season. The
December 8 cocktail party was generously hosted
by Emmanuel Verstraeten, owner of this new
Belgian import that specializes in an innovative
menu of fresh and organic foods. Surrounded by a
circle of Rising Stars nominees, FGI President
Margaret Hayes led the audience in a round of
applause for the group, many of whom got to show
off their designs. Everyone shared a spirited
evening—infused with the creative energy of the
talented nominees.
–– Joyce Kauf
Mom, Pop and Me
I’m a nice Jewish girl from the east side of
Manhattan. My old neighborhood was not so far
downtown that it would qualify as the Lower East
Side, but close enough to have its flavor rub off on
our community.
Growing up in the late 1940s, 14th Street was the
dividing line between old and new New York.
Stuyvesant Town was conceived by its developer,
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, as a private,
self-contained village to provide apartment living for
returning World War II veterans. To build it, eighteen
city blocks of shabby buildings were
demolished. Gone was the notorious
Gas House neighborhood filled with a
rainbow
of
ethnicities,
businesses, churches, theaters and
11,000 residents. The replacement,
Stuyvesant Town, wasn't ritzy, ethnic or
particularly anything, except a level
playing field for people to
rebuild their lives. It was clean,
well-managed and boring.
East of Stuyvesant Town, 14th Street
retained the flavor, personality and
warmth that the new development
lacked. Yet, the arrival of the new
residents allowed 14th Street to remain
a viable commercial avenue.
In neighborhoods untouched by the developers'
wrecking balls, immigrants disembarked in waves
each generation, moving in as older generations
moved to the suburbs. At the turn of the 20th
century, new arrivals on the Lower East Side worked
by candlelight, stitching piecework for what was
to become known as ready-to-wear. There were
pushcart peddlers and dreamers of success.
300-square-foot tenement apartments housed large
families and small businesses.
Smack in the middle of the block between 1st
Avenue and Avenue A on 14th Street was a hosiery
store nestled among the hardware stores, Chinese
laundries, churches and hairdressers. Before the
advent of pantyhose, that’s where I had my first job.
I worked for a “Mom and Pop team” who lived
behind the long, narrow shop. Their apartment
was spare beyond minimalist. It contained a table,
chairs, bed and a black-and-white television with
rabbit ears. But this couple was warm—and that
warmth brought in customers. These were people
who were happy to be in America.
When I was 12, modest skirts and shirtwaists were
worn with high socks, anklets or bobby socks. There
were a few “rough girls” who scandalously wore
unmentionable garter belts and stockings. Tights
were worn by dancers and ice skaters, and were
purchased at specialty shops.
By age 13, in high school, we were all wearing
stockings and garter belts. But, at 14,
textured tights hit the market. Never an
insider, I now sat on top of a craze that
made me the "doyenne" of hosiery.
The opaque tights evolved into sheer pantyhose and were a wild success. Pantyhose
changed the way we dressed: Do you
remember mini-skirts, hot pants and
Courreges knock-offs? But, looking at the
big picture, pantyhose also changed the
way we shop.
Mom and Pop specialty shops gave way to
hosiery departments on the main floors of
department stores and mall chain stores.
I recall the Christmastime crush of women,
five deep—in a store that was no more than
nine feet across—buying boxes of three pairs of
hose as gifts for their housekeepers, hairdressers,
children’s teachers. Black, seamed cotton lisle
stockings were purchased in abundance for the
nuns that taught parochial school.
This shop was a woman’s domain. The only man on
site was Pop. He and Mom occasionally invited me
into their home at the back of the store for a
“glass tea” and a Danish. I remember the warm
feelings directed not just towards me, but towards
the customers.
The intimacy of that shop, and all the stores on 14th
Street, has given way to pre-packaged hosiery and
hardware racks in chain drugstores. With progress,
we've lost some of the old-time humanity in retailing.
–– Adrienne Youngstein Gruberg,
Creative Strategist, AY & A
Creative Content Strategist
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DARE TO DESIGN YOUR FUTURE
Over 400 students from dozens of colleges
nationwide converged on the Fashion Institute of
Technology for Fashion Group International’s 10th
annual Career Day. The wonderfully planned event
was a huge success.
Guest speaker Jorge Ramon opened the program in
the F.I.T. auditorium. Mr. Ramon is a stylist to
numerous celebrities. This is a fairly new career
track, with high visibility––the results were there for
all to see in the following week’s National Enquirer.
The stylist described to his rapt audience how he
was launched on this novel career path, and his
trajectory through numerous jobs including
Seventeen and Teen People magazines. He
explained that a career is a journey and pointed
out that this day at F.I.T. was about the students’
journeys.
For the next four hours, students had a choice of
eight panels, each relevant to their future. Each
hour, the attendees could choose between one
of two panels offered. Each panel was composed
of three talented executives, plus a moderator
armed with probing questions for the panelists.
Career panel topics included Fashion Design,
Global Marketing, Fashion Journalism, Public
Relations & Brand Marketing, Eco Design (a hot,
emerging career trend), Retail and Trend
Spotting. One popular panel was Jump Start Your
Job Search. Considering the tough economic
times ahead, this panel was attended by almost
all of the students.
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The speakers, all volunteers, were from every
area of the fashion industry. Kudos to the
designers, marketing directors, brand marketing
executives, sourcing directors and retailers from
every major company who generously donated
their time and expertise to assist the young
leaders of tomorrow.
In turn, the students were genuinely excited by
the presence of so many talented speakers.
The students attentively hung on the panelists’
comments and asked many thoughtful, in-depth
questions of the speakers.
Opening day speaker
Jorge Ramon
Tracy Reese (third from left) and scholarship winners
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The primary reason for creating this and previous
career day sessions is to introduce students to the
myriad career possibilities in our industry, so that
they can make more sensible decisions as they
begin to plan their career path. It was definitely
“mission accomplished.”
The day was capped off with a speech by designer
Tracy Reese. In her inspiring account, she told the
audience about her road to her current
success, and how she accomplished her goals. It
was a riveting story of timing and talent that paid off.
She was a dynamic speaker, and all the students
were enthralled—as were her peers who mingled in
with the students.
All in all, the day, was a huge success. It was very
valuable for the students—and a reminder to
some of us of our own youth.
–– Arlene Eisner
Cover New York
–– Wendi Winters
Freelance Writer, Reporter and Public Relations
[email protected]
Keynote speaker
Tracy Reese
Job Fair
IN MEMORIAM
Truth or Dare
Brands: Authentic or Disconnected
In these uncertain times, cash- and credit-pressed
consumers are taking a good hard look at their
relationships with brands, searching for authenticity,
and for real stories that shape their connection to
brands.
According to Tim Girvin, Seattle- and New Yorkbased strategic consultant, brand story teller and
designer, the way people think is founded on stories
which they use and share to define who they are.
Today’s great communicators, Facebook, MySpace
and LinkedIn, are all about sharing stories, Girvin
says, and brands work the same way. Whether a
start-up or a century-old family brand, the
consumer’s emotional connection to a brand is built
on stories.
At Brand, Storytelling, Authenticity and The Trend
to The Truth, a Frontliners event hosted by FGI,
Girvin moderated a discussion by a panel of retail
colleagues. Anthony Battaglia, retail design
strategist, Victoria’s Secret; Dawn Clark, global retail
architect, NBBJ Design; Claudia Cividino, CEO,
Adam, Inc.; and Paul Terlizzi, CEO, Capezio, shared
their stories of how their brands connect with their
customers.
In order to cut through the clutter of the 3,000 plus
messages consumers are exposed to each
day, brands must build on an authentic, honest
story. For Terlizzi, steward of the family business
founded 125 years ago by Salvatore Capezio, the
brand’s authenticity––the story––lies in the fitting of
ballet slippers and pointe shoes; in being where
dancers dance and by providing costumes for
dance classes in the public school system. Cividino
believes that predictability is part of the relationship,
explaining that every moment in her store—from
music to flowers to attitude—gives breath and life to
the story.
Battaglia’s experience at Victoria’s Secret, with its
story of luxury, service and femininity, has proven to
him that the fitting room tells “the truth” about the
brand and helps establish an emotional connect.
“The fitting room is so much of the experience,” he
said, “it’s where the deal is made,” and said he’s
pleased to see retailers giving more attention to
the lighting, mirrors, space and comfort of their
fitting rooms. In Clark’s view, shopping is a series of
emotional states that must be made easy via
sound and scent, and thinks that a retail space
should be more like a walk in the forest—a space
that makes people feel good.
The consensus? Displayed on the screen behind
the panel, The New Marketing Manifesto, a phrase
coined by John Grant: “Authenticity is the
benchmark against which all brands are now
judged.”
At the end of the sold-out program, FGI member
Robert di Mauro, commending Capezio’s
authenticity in advertising, asked Terlizzi if
he recalled a 1970s Capezio campaign, “The
Cobbler and The Ballerina, a Capezio Love Story.”
Terlizzi remembered it well, noting that the
campaign poster hangs in their offices today.
Di Mauro went on to share a story of emotional
connection to the brand. The cobbler pictured in
the poster was, in fact, di Mauro’s uncle Ignacio,
who made shoes worn by di Mauro when he himself
was a dancer—a defining moment of truth and
authenticity.
–– Wendy D'Amico
Creative Consultant, [email protected]
Helen Galland, a former
president of the Fashion
Group International, died
in September 2008, after
a long illness.
Prior to her presidency
of the Helen Galland
Associates consulting firm, founded in
1983, Galland held a series of
executive positions during a lengthy career as a
retail executive. Beginning at Lord &Taylor,
then under the leadership of Dorothy Shaver,
Galland went on to Bonwit Teller, where she
rose to senior vice president and general
merchandise manager. Subsequently, she
served as president of the Wamsutta Trucraft
Home Fashions division of M. Lowenstein,
returning to Bonwit’s in 1980 where, within a
year, she was promoted to president and CEO.
Involved throughout her life in business,
fashion, academic and charitable pursuits,
Helen Galland will be much missed by her
devoted family, loving friends and the many
colleagues whose lives she touched with care,
kindness and consideration.
Former Fashion Group International member,
Sheila Levy Chefetz, passed away in August of
this year. After a 25-year career in the fashion
industry, during which she served as a fashion
director for New York City retailers Stern
Brothers & Co. and Gimbel’s, Chefetz became
a consultant working on projects for major U.S.
corporations including Chori America and
DuPont. In 1989, she opened The Country
Dining Room Antiques in Great Barrington,
Massachusetts, and subsequently authored two
tabletop books Antiques For The Table and
Modern Antiques for The Table.
A generous supporter of many cultural
institutions in the Berkshires, Chefetz served as
president of the board of the Berkshire Museum
and volunteered for a number of other
philanthropic organizations in the area.
Sheila Chefetz was a dear and loyal friend to
many and will be sorely missed by all who loved
and cared for her.
–– Wendy D'Amico
Creative Consultant, [email protected]
Standing is moderator Tim Girvin; panelists from left to right: Anthony Battaglia,
retail design strategist, Victoria’s Secret; Claudia Cividino, CEO, Adam, Inc.;
Dawn Clark, global retail architect, NBBJ Design; Paul Terlizzi, CEO, Capezio
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“Everyone who is in retail and fashion right now is
seeing a ‘bloodbath’...we’re all doing expense
cutting. It’s really terrifying.” Pretty scary words
coming from Simon Doonan, creative director of
Barneys, the ultra-trendy reservoir of chic and pricey
goodies for those one might think far removed from
the economic disaster of November 2008. “But,” he
added, “I think my job is to sustain the idea that
fashion is exciting. When times are tough, you have
to be even more fabulous and more glamorous, and
you have to rise above it.”
And that, apparently, would be what creative
director Marylou Luther had in mind when she
assembled the FGI trend report, Spring/Summer
2009, with her committee: Linda Dresner, president,
Linda Dresner, Inc.; Sally Singer, fashion news and
features director, Vogue; Stephanie Solomon, vice
president & fashion director, Bloomingdale’s;
Amy Synnot, beauty director, InStyle and
Sandra Wilson, accessories fashion director, Neiman
Marcus. These very in-the-know experts floated plenty
of glamour and fabulousness in trends from
which, Solomon asserted, “our customers won’t
shy away from” but, she added, “they will shop
competitively.”
The audio-visual presentation of the best-of-the-best
ideas from the runway collections of New York, Milan,
London and Paris showcased the trends the committee
saw as the most wearable and the most salable.
Itemized, in Luther’s clever use of Wall Street lingo, are:
Short (knee-toppers, short dresses over bikers and
suited shorts); Mergers and Acquisitions (surprising
pairings); Foreign Currencies (ethnic references); Hidden
Assets (the view of the bra), Net Earnings (sheerness);
Liquidity (spills of sequins, crystals and lame) Leading
Indicators (geometric graphics); Futures (designers
looking up and ahead to Mars and the moon); Material
Things (fabrics wrinkled, crinkled, crumpled and rumpled); The Manipulators (fashion design as sculpture,
origami, basketweaves and the ruff); In the Black and
White (lots; with pastels, brilliants and nearly no-colors
registering, too); Glamour Stocks (fringe, as in the fringe
benefits for evening); Keep Your Pants On (jumpsuits and
new-looking, ankle-cropped, peg-legged numbers);
Change of A-Dress (of the sport, polo and shirt persuasion); Jackets and Coats (jackets sleeveless or powershouldered, the trench, the wrap, the boyfriend jacket);
Added Values (platforms, straps, shapely heels, color,
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Spring/Summer
python and crocodile make shoe news. Hobos, totes
and clutches bag it. Bracelets and cuffs continue.
Statement earrings look important); Face Value
(According to MAC’s Gordon Espinet, it’s about
impact without overkill. Choices abound in both hair
and makeup.)
With the panelists in their seats, Simon Doonan
opened the discussion, decrying the “deranged,
grotesque idea” (a grumbling utterance he’s
overheard), of “shopping in my closet.” And what,
he asked Linda Dresner, does she propose to do to
make this “horrifying” practice obsolete. While it’s
important to offer hard-to-resist items, she said,
wearability is important and pointed out that
customers will be enticed by a mix of high and low
prices. Solomon agreed, stressing that price is
playing a bigger role, and stores should tout their
price ranges.
As far as editorial is concerned, Singer said that, in
line with the tenor of the times, Vogue will show less
costly items and has told designers that the
book won’t be showing the extreme ends of a
collection. “Don’t buy less—buy better” is the
philosophy the magazine espouses, she said.
Even with the dire news about a sour economy, the
panelists seemed upbeat and positive about the
season, each confident about trends they felt would
resonate with consumers. For Neiman’s Wilson,
“It’s all about bold jewelry”—necklaces, earrings, an
armload of bangles—adding that a high heel makes
a woman feel beautiful and sexy. Solomon expressed
high hate for the “not cool” harem pants,
but loves the “confident and empowering”
sharp-shouldered jacket she bought in Paris. She
also likes a new nude or clear shoe that extends
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STELLA McCARTNEY
THANKOON
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DRIES VAN NOTEN
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the leg. Dresner said she, too, loves jackets, plus
sleeveless and 3/4 coats; black, black and white, as
well as ethnic touches (in small doses).
Synnott, weighing in on beauty, shrinks from the
overdone look or the no-makeup “depression face,”
but cheers the happy medium of a smoky eye and a
pale lip, though red lipstick is back in a big way.
Lipstick sales, she said, have surged—up 40
percent this past year, especially red lipstick (which,
in recessionary times, always does).
“It’s all about putting on a happy face,” she
concluded, with Solomon adding, “This is a
good time to have fun.”
The Spring/Summer Ready-to-Wear presentation,
generously sponsored by Cotton, Inc. and MAC
Cosmetics, drew capacity audiences to all
five showings (at New York’s Time Life Building)
and is available on DVD, complete with panel
discussion, to members and non-members. For
more information or to order, call 212.302.5511 or
visit [email protected].
–– Wendy D'Amico
Creative Consultant, [email protected]
T H E F A S H I O N G R O U P
I N T E R N A T I O N A L
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October 2008: Marylou Luther, creative director of
Fashion Group International, and editor of the
International Fashion Syndicate, was awarded the
French Ministry of Culture’s Chevalier dans l’Ordre
des Arts et des Lettres, along with New York Times
photographer/chronicler Bill Cunningham.
The ceremony and reception, held at the Musée
des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, at the close of the
spring/summer 2009 ready-to-wear shows, was
attended by an admiring crowd of colleagues
and friends from the fashion, retail and press
communities including Carine Roitfeld, Robin
Givhan, Sonia Rykiel, Rick Owens and our own
Margaret Hayes, president of FGI.
Margaret Hayes is among Fashion’s 50 Most
Powerful.
A week prior to the kickoff of the Spring/Summer
2009 runway collections, Daily News reporter Mark
Ellwood named New York’s 50 most influential
power-brokers in the city’s second-largest business.
Ranked number 13 on the list of those who keep the
wheels of the $47 billion industry churning is
Margaret Hayes, president of Fashion Group
International, a global organization of over 5,000
members on five continents. Established in 1930 as
the first non-profit organization founded by and
for women, today FGI offers membership to
professional men and women in the fashion and
design-related industries including apparel,
accessories, beauty and home.
Ms. Hayes stepped into her current role after an
enviable career in retail, during which she served as
senior vice president and general merchandise
manager at Saks Fifth Avenue, the first woman to
hold that position.
Jo Jo Roberson-Harder, FGI, Boca Raton: Author,
fashion designer, stylist and creator of America’s
Top Dog Model Contest, Roberson-Harder
unleashes the secrets to the “the ultimate Diva
lifestyle for four-legged members of high society” in
Diva Dogs: A Style Guide To Living The Fabulous
Life (Bow Tie Press, September 2008). From
theme-party ideas to the utmost luxury in
beauty treatments,from “petiquette” to the “right”
clothes, carriers and accessories, the compendium
is the very last word on the chic and red-carpet
world of “pup” culture.
New York
Jane Ayers
Katie-Jane Bailey
Felicia Clelia Battista
Cathy Berger*
Jaime Bivona
Sandra Blevins
Stacy Brennan
Lynndel Cassin
Renato Cavero
Agnes Chapski
Yi-Ling Chu*
Donna Cias
Sandy Cohen
Elizabeth Perrin Coletta
Anita Comtois
Laura Cooper
Stephanie Cozzi
Carol Davidson
Silke Debler
Danielle DiFerdinando*
Valerie Donati
Jennifer Falik
David Faux*
Barbara Fevelo-Hoad
Michael Finelli*
Katie Firth
Jennifer Fisher
Liane Fleischer
Monica Belag Forman
Ariel Foxman
Meredith Garcia
Jessica Gaydon*
Casey Gillespie
Lisa Goldmeer
Sharon Graubard
Joyce I. Greenberg
Tim Gunn
Carol Hoffman
Anna Holvik*
Selena Hull
Erica Hyer*
Jennifer Jann*
Ivy Karkut
Jill Karp
David Komar
Julie Lamb
Laurence C. Leeds, Jr.
Rita Liefhebber
Amy Loef*
Patricia R. Malone
Deborah Lochli McGrath
Anna Meacham*
Courtney Merckel*
Yewon Min*
Stacey Miyamoto
Ned Munroe
BL Ochman
Dana Papa
Atul Pathak
Penny Payne
Dana Perez
Mimi Plange
Gabriel Rivera-Barraza
Michael Ryan
Emily Schiller*
Mitchell Schlansky
Melanie Serin
Ellen Slicklen
Stephanie Solomon
Vaughan Spanjer*
Samuel Thorpe
Jenny Vallejo
Jean Vernor
Daniella Vitale
Casandra Walker
Ni’Kita Wilson
Cathy O’Brien Yaffa
Arizona
Jennifer Allen
Julia Baker
Julie Burnett
Clarissa Burt
Nikki Causer
Beth C. Crosby
Angela Culley*
Cynthia P. Dunne
Wendy Elderlein
Terry Elwell
Frank A. Helton, Jr.*
Marla Johnson
Melanie Lock
Christine McCabe
Shannon McRae
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Men’s Event with GQ
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