LIZ CLAIBORNE LADIES VINTAGE SILK/LINEN BLEND LUX JACKET

LIZ CLAIBORNE LADIES VINTAGE SILK/LINEN BLEND LUX JACKET (2) CHEST POCKETS (2) HIP POCKETS 72%% SILK 28% LINEN 3/4 Sleeves NO FLAWS! Synonymous with stylish office wear, Liz Claiborne Fabrics are feminine and functional. Founder of one of the world’s most successful women’s apparel (clothing) manufacturing companies, Liz Claiborne was a pioneer in designing reasonably priced, quality clothing for modern working women. Claiborne is best known for co-founding Liz Claiborne Inc., which in 1986 became the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500 list. Claiborne was the first woman to become chair and CEO of a Fortune 500 company. New York City, U.S. When Claiborne was twenty-one years old her sketch for a woman’s coat won a design competition sponsored by Harper’s Bazaar magazine. She began working in New York City as a design assistant and model. During the 1950s she designed sportswear, dresses, and tailored clothing. From 1960 to 1975 she was the main designer for the junior dress division of Jonathan Logan, a major women’s apparel manufacturer. During this time, Claiborne also raised her son from her first marriage (to Ben Schultz) and two stepchildren from her second marriage to Arthur Ortenberg, a clothing manufacturer. In 1986, when company sales reached $1.2 billion, it joined the list of Fortune magazine’s five hundred largest industrial companies in the United States, one of only two companies on the list that a woman had started.