Kors is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women. Top fashion designer. He said during Fashion Week: His half Scandanavian and half Jewish background has made him popular from the Upper East Side of Manhattan to Long Island.
Lauren is a famous Clothing designer and fashion magnate. Born in the Bronx to middle-class Jewish parents. His father was an artist. His real name last name is Livshitz.
Sassoon is a British hair care mogul who began as hairdresser. Has endowed a center for the study of anti-semitism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Brooklyn Politician and clothier. Had a sign in Ebbets Field: "Hit this sign and win a suit". Stark was Borough President of Brooklyn in the 1960s.
Famous Hollywood dress designer for the Stars. Costumed many leading ladies from the 30s to the 50s. Born Adrian Greenberg.
Born in Morroco, he was raised in Israel. He spent seven years with Geoffrey Beene and then was plucked out of obscurity to become chief designer for Guy La Rouche. In 1998, he became chief designer for Yves Saint Laurent. In March 2000, he was dropped from this position.
Prominent fashion designer who has expanded into just about everything. Known for Alexander Julians "Colours" and other lines. His father ran a college clothing shop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where Julian was raised. We have a shaky source that says he is Jewish. Visitor help welcome. Update: We have been reliably informed that his father was Jewish, his mother was not Jewish.
Famous clothing designer who was born in the Bronx in 1942. His parents were immigrants from Europe. Klein was always known as the best dressed boy on the block. He began his company in 1968 with $10,000 and the help of his childhood friend, Barry Schwartz. The rest is fashion history.
Karan, born Donna Faske, is a design mogul. She began with Anne Klein and took over as chief designer of that firm with Kleins death in 1974. Ms. Karan is one of many celebrities reported to be studying kabbalah, Jewish mysticism.
Bauer was born and raised in the state of Washington, he was a husband, a father, a businessman, an innovator and a true outdoorsman. Eddie Bauer lived a full life filled with ideas and inventions.
Lauder was a famous cosmetics manufacturer who was born Josephine Esther Mentzer in Queens, NY. Her married name, Lauter, was later changed to Lauder. Named to Time Magazines list of the 100 most influential business people of the century. She built the company from scratch; based on great service, free gifts, and a great sense of the market.
Mizrahi ia an American TV presenter, fashion designer, and was the creative director of Liz Claiborne. He is best known for his eponymous fashion lines. As a child Mizrahi attended a yeshiva.
Cole is a famous shoe designer. Rather than sell from an exhibitor space, he registered the company as a movie production company with NYC officials. He thus got permission to park a forty foot trailer in midtown and sold 40,000 pairs of shoes out of the trailer in a matter of days. Cole has recently been reported to be studying with the orthodox group Aish Ha Torah.
Bakst was born Lev Rosenberg in Russia in 1864. Bakst was his mothers maiden name. He converted to Christianity as a young man, but later returned to Judaism. Bakst was the principal costume designer for Diaghilevs famous Ballet Russes.
Strauss is a German-Jewish founder of the Levi Strauss Company. The company, which began in San Francisco in the 1850s, made clothes gold miners wanted. His sisters descendants, the "Haas" family, still control the company.
Jacobs is an American fashion designer. As one of todays premier clothing designers his line can be found in Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bergdorf Goodman. He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997. Jacobs is on Time Magazine's 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Azria is a French fashion designer of Tunisian Jewish descent who founded the contemporary women's clothing brand BCBGMAXAZRIA. Azria is also the designer, chairman and CEO of BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP, a global fashion house that encompasses over 20 brands. He is based in Los Angeles.
