Cipe Pineles was the first female art director of many major magazines, as well as being credited as the first person to bring fine art into mainstream mass-produced media.
21 Facts About Cipe Pineles
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Cipe Pineles married two prominent designers, twice widowed, had two adopted children, and two grandchildren.
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Cipe Pineles attended Bay Ridge High School in Brooklyn and won a Tiffany Foundation Scholarship to Pratt Institute from 1927 to 1931.
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Cipe Pineles continued her education in 1930 at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
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Cipe Pineles soon became the art director for Glamour, a publication directed at young women.
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Cipe Pineles worked for Vogue in New York and London and Overseas Woman in Paris.
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Cipe Pineles continued to develop her distinct style throughout her career, and in 1942, she became art director of Glamour.
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Cipe Pineles went on to become the art director at Seventeen, then Charm, and moved in 1961 to become art director of Mademoiselle in New York.
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At Seventeen, Cipe Pineles worked alongside Helen Valentine, founder, editor-in-chief and a writer for the magazine, and Estelle Ellis, a marketer for the magazine.
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Cipe Pineles was credited with being the first person to bring fine art into mainstream, mass-produced media.
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Cipe Pineles commissioned fine artists such as Ad Reinhardt and Andy Warhol to illustrate articles during her time at Seventeen.
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Cipe Pineles rejected the standard that women should be mindless and focused on finding a husband, and considered her readers thoughtful and serious.
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Cipe Pineles planned the number of four-color pages, two-color pages, and the general pattern for the issue itself.
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When Charm was folded into Glamour magazine in 1959, Cipe Pineles moved on to Mademoiselle magazine.
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Cipe Pineles's efforts contributed to the feminist movement by helping to continue to change women's roles in society.
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Cipe Pineles joined the faculty of Parsons School of Design in 1963 and was its director of publication design.
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Cipe Pineles was the illustrator for Marjorie Hillis' best-selling book "Live Alone and Like It," published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1936.
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Cipe Pineles repeatedly broke the glass ceiling in the design field.
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Cipe Pineles became the first female member of the Art Directors Club in 1943 after being nominated for 10 years and was the second woman inducted into Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1975.
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Cipe Pineles had a son, Thomas Cipe Pineles Golden, with William Golden and a daughter, Carol Burtin Fripp, with Will Burtin, along with two grandchildren.
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Cipe Pineles suffered from kidney disease and ultimately died of a heart attack.