Anne Klein (fashion designer)

Common card · No. 256737

Anne Klein (born Hannah Golofsky; August 3, 1923 – March 19, 1974) was an American fashion designer, businesswoman, as well as a founder and the namesake of the Anne Klein & Company (owned by WHP Global as of July 2019). She co-founded Anne Klein & Company in 1968 with Gunther Oppenheim, and within ten years, her designs were being sold in over 750 department stores and boutiques in the USA. Her design career began in 1937, at the age of 14, when she was offered a scholarship to attend the Traphagen School of Fashion, which led to her first job as a sketcher for dress firms on 7th Avenue. In 1948 she married clothing manufacturer Ben Klein, with whom she launched the Junior Sophisticates clothing line. Junior Sophisticates offered styles for younger women with smaller figures. Anne Klein was the principal designer there until 1960, when her marriage ended. In 1963, she married her second husband, Matthew "Chip" Rubinstein. Together, they founded Anne Klein & Company on 39th Street in 1968...

Read on Wikipedia