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Elizabeth Hawes (December 16, 1903 – September 6, 1971) was an American clothing designer, outspoken critic of the fashion industry, and champion of ready to wear and people's right to have the clothes they desired, rather than the clothes dictated to be fashionable, an idea encapsulated in her book Fashion Is Spinach, published in ...
17 de mar. de 2023 · Learn about the life and legacy of Elizabeth Hawes, a pioneer of American fashion who challenged class, gender, and environmental issues in her work. See her garments and books at The Museum at FIT exhibition until March 26.
23 de may. de 2024 · Learn about the life and work of Elizabeth Hawes, a radical American clothing designer, author, and labor activist. Explore her innovative and gender-nonconforming designs, her social reform philosophy, and her legacy in the fashion industry.
23 de may. de 2018 · Elizabeth Hawes was a visionary and an iconoclast. She was a designer of inventive clothing and a fashion writer whose analytic prose still illuminates the world of Seventh Avenue. — Whitney Blausen
12 de jun. de 2014 · By Alice Gregory. June 12, 2014 12:25 pm. Introducing Elizabeth Hawes: genius writer, wry cultural commentator, perverse humorist, gifted artist and truly modern thinker. You’ve never heard of...
Overview. Title: Evening dress. Designer: Elizabeth Hawes (American, Ridgewood, New Jersey 1903–1971 New York) Date: 1940. Culture: American. Medium: silk. Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. George B. Wells, 1957. Accession Number: 2009.300.2452.
Elizabeth Hawes created simple, witty, distinctive, elegant and practical garments for women of means. Her designs were so smart and timeless that they were as contemporary in the early 1930s as they were in the late 1940s due to her commitment to quality of materials and simplicity of line.
