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Kasper A.S L. Herbert Kasper (December 12, 1926 – March 1, 2020) was an American fashion designer known as Kasper. He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at the Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After World War II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Fredericks. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. Kasper's talent was for making inexpensive clothes look "exquisite" and expensive, which endeared him to several other Seventh Avenue manufacturers in the 1950s.[citation needed] He then worked as a dress designer for Penart, Lord & Taylor in New York. His works were known as Kasper of Penarth. In the 1960s he started to make clothing under his own label. In 1963, he won the Coty Award for American designers. Joan Leslie (1902–1966) had a women's dress and sportswear company that Mr. Kasper worked for, when she died, Mr. Kasper became the head designer for the company and eventually became Vice-President for the company, the Lesley Fay Co. Inc. He left the company in 1985. He designed clothes for Joanne Carson, the wife of talk show host Johnny Carson, who described his clothes as being both feminine and sexy.