Liz Claiborne (fashion designer)

Liz Claiborne ( born March 31, 1929 in Brussels, † June 26, 2007 in New York; Complete name Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne ) was an American fashion designer.

Life

Liz Claiborne came from an old established family in Louisiana, but lived their American parents at the time of her birth in Belgium. 1939, when Liz was ten years old, returned the Claibornes back to New Orleans. Later she attended a boarding school in Catonsville, Maryland. Even before she finished high school, she went back to Europe to take an art course. After studying Claiborne moved back to the United States where she first got a job in sportswear house Tina reader as a draftsman. In New York's Fashion District, she worked nearly two decades for various fashion labels until she founded her own company in Manhattan in 1976 with her husband and business partner Arthur Ortenberg ( 1926-2014 ), the Liz Claiborne Inc.

As a fashion designer, she succeeded in the 1970s to create a new trend by fashion specifically designed for so-called career women who could compete with the suits of their male counterparts. Thus became her trend soon to a successful business idea that brought their company to the forefront of women's fashion industry in the United States.

In 1990, she gave up the management of the company she founded and retired into private life. End of June 2007, she succumbed to cancer in New York.