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Stan Herman on His Career in Fashion

Sun, 07/14/2024 - 17:56
In a circa 1972 photo from Stan Herman’s memoir, “Uncross Your Legs,” Tasha Bauer, a fashion model, posed with the designer “in full-fledged faux fur.”
Kenn Duncan (c) Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPL)

It's not every day you get a chance to hear from a man whose "simple, comfortable clothes are probably worn by more people than any other designer," as Sheridan Sansegundo wrote in The Star. It was January, and the paper's former arts editor was reviewing Mr. Herman's autobiography, "Uncross Your Legs," from Pointed Leaf Press. 

The eye-pleasing ubiquity comes from his work in uniforms, those worn by the workers of TWA, FedEx, JetBlue, and McDonald's, for example, even the staffers at the Sandals resorts in the Caribbean, and the popularity is manifest in his success on the QVC channel, where he's been known to move thousands of items of clothing in a single program. 

Now, on Monday, he will face the inquiring mind of David M. Alpern, veteran radio host, former senior editor at Newsweek, at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton at 6 p.m.

Mr. Herman, it should be said, has spent summers in North Sea for years, and among his local bona fides counts his onetime leadership of EEGO, the East End Gay Organization.

Registration for the talk can be done at this link. As of Sunday evening, there were 16 seats remaining.

 

 

 

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