SWOTT Analysis Donna Karan started her fashion career at a young age working with Liz Clairborne, then as an assistant designer with the well-known fashion house of Anne Klein. Donna was born with her mother as a showroom model, and her father was a practicing suit maker/ tailor, so it seems inevitable that she would be part of the fashion industry. While attending the prestigious Parson’s school of design in 1968, Donna Karan was offered a summer job working for the designer, Anne Klein. While at Klein, she met and married her second husband, a clothing boutique owner, Mark Karan. At the age of 24, after graduating from Parsons, Kline offered her a full time position as one of its designer; then two years later she was promoted to associate designer, and had become Klein's successor.
Paul Poiret was born into poverty in Paris in 1879. At an early age he was apprenticed to an Umbrella maker. The odd bits of fabric cuttings that were tossed as waste interested Poiret, and he began to take them from the trash. He used this detritus to fashion clothes for his sister's dolls. Each dress was accompanied by a pattern that he drew and saved.
Summary * Burt’s Bees is a company that was founded in 1984 by Roxanne Quimby and Burt Shavitz in central Maine and produces beeswax-based natural skin care products and handmade crafts. * Burt’s Bees started with an investment of four hundred dollars when Quimby met Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine and an ex-photographer for Life and New York magazines * Quimby’s entrepreneurial lessons were learned at a very young age from her Harvard educated father. * Quimby started visiting all the local fairs so she could sell their products. * The first year sales were $ 81000 which seemed an unattainable amount to Quimby. * Burt’s Bee’s first big break came in 1989 at a wholesale show in Springfield, Massachusetts when one of their new creations, a teddy bear candle, was noticed by an up-scale Manhattan boutique store.
Johnson took many dance classes, which inspired her love of costumes. Johnson's fashion career started after she entered and won the Mademoiselle Guest Editor Contest. Within a year, she was the in-house designer for Manhattan boutique Paraphernalia. Johnson became part of both the ‘youthquake’ fashion movement and Andy Warhol's underground scene. In 1969, she opened a boutique called Betsey Bunky Nini on New York's Upper East Side.
Ann Taylor 15 Case Analysis Week 6 Professor Michael Reitzel Eugenia Harris COMPANY NAME Ann Taylor WEBSITE www.anntaylor.com INDUSTRY Premier American Specialty Apparel Retailer for the Professional Woman BACKGROUND AND HISTORY Ann Taylor was discovered and started in 1954 as a wardrobe source for a woman of business, socially higher class. This business started out in the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Robert Liebeskind established a stand- alone clothing store for Ann Taylor. The name Ann Taylor for the company came from when Rich Liebeskind Sr. the father of Liebeskind who is a designer himself provided as a good luck gesture gave his son rights exclusively to one of his best selling dresses. Ann Taylor was never name of a real person living but her persona lived on in the profile of the consumers.
Marisol moved to New York City in 1950, looking for more abstract approaches. There Marisol took art instruction from decorative painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi at New York’s Art Students League. It was in 1951 she discovered Pre-Colombian artifcats, and found her true passion. She dropped painting taking up sculpture. Many of her paintings remain in the hands of friends and are rarely sold, therefore difficult to appraise.
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (1883 – 1971) Figure 1. Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel [pic] Gabrielle Chanel (see Figure 1) was born in a French city Saumur on 19 August in 1883. When she was 18 she got a job as a shop assistant at a clothes shop. In 1909 Coco opened her own firm that made hats, which had a huge success in Paris. Coco had a talent to invent new models.
In the middle of Satrapi’s book, she said, “I never realized how much they loved me. And I understand how important they were to me” (149:7). Family played a big role in Satrapi’s book, throughout the book we get to see her family struggle through problems together. I feel like she humanized Iranian people this way. In another part of Satrapi’s book, she says “I got to go to my first party…my mom let me go, she also knitted me a sweater full of holes and made me a necklace with chains and nails.
Gabrielle Chanel commonly known as Coco Chanel started out in a life of poverty. It was at the orphanage in which she was raised that she learned to sew, leading her to find a local job as a seamstress. However, life as a seamstress lacked the glamour she desired, causing her to pursue a career in theater. But when show business proved fruitless, she found solace in the company of her lover Etienne Balsan, heir to a textile fortune. Balsan provided the capital needed for Coco to start up the hat and dress shop which quickly became one of the most popular boutiques in Paris.
Marilyn Monroe Norma Jean Mortenson, then known by the World as Marilyn Monroe, was born on June 1st, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Gladys Baker, was a woman with many psychological problems, so Marilyn had a difficult childhood and adolescence. She had to live many complicated situations that brought her problems for the rest of her short life. Before becoming a sex symbol, she used work in a factory, where a journalist found her and asked to take her some photographs. After that, she joined a well-known model agency called Blue Book, where the manager told her to dye her dark hair to a platinum-blond.