Mary McFadden
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Mary McFadden (born October 1, 1938, New York City) is an American fashion designer and writer.
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[edit] Education
Studied at the École Lubec, 1955-56, at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1956-57; studied fashion at the Traphagen School of Design, 1956; studied sociology at Columbia University and at the New School for Social Research, New York, 1958-60.
[edit] Career
Her career included stints with Christian Dior and Vogue South Africa before launching her first collection in New York in 1973. McFadden won a Coty Award in 1976 and entered the Coty Hall of Fame in 1979. Since then she has received many honors including the President's Fellows Award of the Rhode Island School of Design and has served as President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. McFadden's collections have been shown on runways in New York, Paris, Rome, Milan, and Tokyo.[1]
[edit] Personal life
Family: Married Philip Harari, 1965 (divorced); married Frank McEwan, 1968 (divorced, 1970); married Armin Schmidt, 1981 (divorced); married Kohle Yohannan, 1988
