Mary McFadden

Mary McFadden (on the left) with Valerie Monroe Shakespeare, in 1999
Mary McFadden (on the left) with Valerie Monroe Shakespeare, in 1999.

Mary McFadden[1] (born 1938 in New York City) is an American art collector, editor, fashion designer, and writer.[2][3]

Education and career

She graduated from the Foxcroft School, and attended Columbia University, the Ecole Lubec, the New School for Social Research, the Sorbonne, and the Traphagen School of Fashion.[2][4]

She was working as the director of public relations for Dior New York in the 1960s, when she married a merchant for De Beers diamonds (Philip Harari, who she later divorced; see Personal life section below) and relocated to South Africa.[5][6] From 1968 to 1970 she was an editor for South African Vogue, a job arranged for her by Diana Vreeland.[2]

In 1976 she began the clothing company Mary McFadden Inc.[7]

From 1982 to 1983 she was the President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.[8]

In 2012 she and her companion Murray Gell-Mann published the book Mary McFadden: A Lifetime of Design, Collecting, and Adventure.[3]

She has also licensed her name to many products such as eyewear, footwear, home furnishings, and sleepwear.[6]

Notable awards

Personal life

McFadden has claimed to be married at least eleven times, but declared that some of these marriages were "only spiritual".[6]

McFadden is known to have been married to, in chronological order:

  • Philip Harari (married 1964, divorced).[5] They were married in Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City, and McFadden's attendants included Warhol star Baby Jane Holzer.[1]
  • Frank McEwen (married 1969, divorced 1970)[17]
  • Armin Schmidt (later divorced)[5]
  • Kohle Yohannan (married 1989, divorced 1992)[5]
  • Vasilos Calitsis (married 1996)[5]

McFadden has a daughter, Justine Harari, from her marriage to Philip Harari.[5][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Charlotte Curtis, "Mary McFadden Married to Philip Harari at St. Bartholomew's; Former Dior Aide is Wed to Director in De Beers Group", The New York Times, 26 September 1964
  2. 1 2 3 José Blanco F.; Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst; Heather Vaughan Lee; Mary Doering (23 November 2015). Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe [4 volumes]: American Fashion from Head to Toe. ABC-CLIO. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-1-61069-310-3.
  3. 1 2 Mary McFadden; Murray Gell-Mann (2012). Mary McFadden: A Lifetime of Design, Collecting, and Adventure. Random House Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8478-3656-7.
  4. 1 2 "Mary McFadden Is Married - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. 1989-06-25. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Elizabeth Sleeman (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. Psychology Press. pp. 348–. ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Francesca Sterlacci; Joanne Arbuckle (30 June 2017). Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 319–. ISBN 978-1-4422-3909-8.
  7. ↑ Francesca Sterlacci; Joanne Arbuckle (26 October 2009). The A to Z of the Fashion Industry. Scarecrow Press. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-0-8108-7046-8.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "NMWA Celebrates the work of American Fashion Designer Mary McFadden in Mary McFadden: Goddesses | National Museum of Women in the Arts". Nmwa.org. 2009-08-30. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  9. 1 2 Sharon G. Hoffman; Amanda M. Mott (2008). Moore College of Art & Design. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-0-7385-5659-8.
  10. ↑ Hyde, Nina S. (1978-05-28). "Fashion Notes". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  11. ↑ "MARY MCFADDEN". Council of Fashion Designers of America. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  12. 1 2 Holly Price Alford; Anne Stegemeyer (25 September 2014). Who's Who in Fashion. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 259–. ISBN 978-1-60901-969-3.
  13. ↑ "Moore College of Art & Design – Mary McFadden Receives Visionary Woman 2008". Moore.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  14. ↑ Fair, Vanity. "Introducing the International Best-Dressed List 2017 Hall of Fame". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  15. ↑ "Ireland Calling, MCFADDEN – SCOTTISH SONS OF LITTLE PATRICK". Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  16. ↑ "NOBEL LAUREATE BARUJ BENACERRAF, DESIGNER MARY MCFADDEN, & MASTER CHEF JACQUES PEPIN AMONG ALUMNI TO BE HONORED BY COLUMBIA". Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  17. ↑ New York Media, LLC (26 March 1990). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 40–.
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