List of Jewish American fashion designers
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This is a list of famous Jewish American fashion designers. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Hattie Carnegie[1]
- Kenneth Cole[2]
- Marc Ecko[3]
- Rudi Gernreich[4]
- Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss (1975 - ) fashion designer and an ex-girlfriend of comedian Jerry Seinfeld[5]
- Marc Jacobs[6]
- Donna Karan[7]
- Calvin Klein[8]
- Michael Kors- fashion designer and Judge on Project Runway[9]
- Estée Lauder[10]
- Ralph Lauren[11]
- Hinda Miller - inventor of the sports bra[12]
- Isaac Mizrahi (1961 - ) fashion designer[13]
- Zac Posen[14]
- Charles Revson - Revlon industrialist[15]
- Ida Rosenthal - founder of Maidenform Brassieres[16]
- Helena Rubinstein[17]
- Levi Strauss - "father of the Jeans"[18]
- Diane von Fürstenberg[19]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ [1] "She rose from obscurity as a Jewish immigrant on Manhattan's Lower East..."
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- ^ [4] "Gernreich was a Jewish refugee who came to America..."
- ^ Referred to as a "fellow Jewish girl" at [5]
- ^ [6] "I was ashamed sometimes of being gay or Jewish..."
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- ^ [8] "Calvin Klein, to take just one example, has built one of the world’s biggest fashion brands. He was a poor Jewish boy from the Bronx."
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- ^ [11] "Exactly how a nice Jewish boy from the Bronx became the creator of a nouveau elite American style is explored..."
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- ^ Hartog, Kelly. "Red carpet rascal", The Jerusalem Post, 2006-12-11. Retrieved on 2006-12-11.
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- ^ [15] "An outspoken Russian Jewish immigrant sold American women on the first undergarment that uplifted and conformed to their shape -- the brassiere..."
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- ^ [17] "Traces the life of the immigrant Jewish peddler who went on to found Levi Strauss & Co..."
- ^ [18] "a Jewish girl from a middle-class background..."
