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Eleanor Lambert (August 10, 1903 – October 7, 2003) was an American fashion publicist. She was instrumental in increasing the international prominence of the American fashion industry and in the emergence of New York City as a major fashion capital. [1] [2] [3] Lambert was the founder of New York Fashion Week, the Council of Fashion Designers ...
May 6, 2024 · Publicity and social leverage have always been at the core of the Met Gala. Its first iteration was held in 1948 by New York publicist Eleanor Lambert, whose primary calling was art: she was the first press director of the Whitney Museum of American Art and helped to found MoMA, as well as the Art Dealers Association of America; luminaries Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dalí and Isamu Noguchi were just a few of the many artists she represented.
Apr 15, 2024 · Lambert offered to figure it out, and became the producer for the first ever Fashion Press Week, held in New York in 1943. From abject chaos soon an organized event emerged, as Lambert coordinated ...
Black Fashion Support. Eleanor Lambert’s Vision of Seventh Avenue. Eleanor Lambert (1903-2003) is widely recognized as the “original” fashion publicist, who revolutionized the American fashion industry. Lambert worked passionately to bring global recognition to New York as an international fashion capital over the span of her 75-year career.
Born on August 10, 1903, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Lambert became a fashion publicist in the 1930s, a time when American fashion struggled to gain recognition compared to its European counterparts, particularly French fashion. In 1943, during World War II, Lambert organized "Press Week" in New York City, which was a precursor to what would ...
Oct 8, 2003 · October 8, 2003, 12:00am. NEW YORK — Eleanor Lambert, who introduced the concept ofpublic relations to the American fashion industry, made stars out of designers and, with her spontaneous ploys ...
Mar 3, 2020 · The Fashion Institute of Technology’s School of Graduate Studies and The Museum at FIT (MFIT) presented Eleanor Lambert: Empress of Seventh Avenue, on view March 3 – 28, 2020, the first exhibition to explore the life of Eleanor Lambert (1903–2003) and her tireless advocacy for American fashion designers and the New York fashion industry. Lambert is widely recognized as the original fashion publicist and, over the span of her 75-year career, she worked passionately to legitimize New ...
