The Triumphant Climb Of Minority Fashion Designers
It may not have caught people’s attention that much in the past, but many of the American fashion designers who were most in the public eye in the latter half of the twentieth century were white. From Claire McCardell in the 1930s and 1940s to Bill Blass and Calvin Klein a few decades later, you saw very few of what today would be called “visible minorities.” There was the occasional career fashion designer who was Jewish, but that usually seemed to be synonymous with “from New York,” and wasn’t regarded as a minority in the same way.
