Eleanor Lambert was an American fashion publicist.
10 Facts About Eleanor Lambert
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Eleanor Lambert was instrumental in increasing the international prominence of the American fashion industry and in the emergence of New York City as a major fashion capital.
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Eleanor Lambert was born to a Presbyterian family in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
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Eleanor Lambert attended the John Herron School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago to study fashion.
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Eleanor Lambert wanted to be a sculptor, but instead went into advertising.
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Eleanor Lambert started at an advertising agency in Manhattan, dealing mostly with artists and art galleries.
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Eleanor Lambert was married twice, firstly to Wills Conner, in the 1920s, which ended in divorce in 1935, and secondly to Seymour Berkson in 1936, which ended with his death in 1959.
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Eleanor Lambert moved to New York in 1925 and briefly worked for a Manhattan advertising agency.
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Shortly after her last public appearance at New York Fashion Week in September, Eleanor Lambert died in 2003 at the age of 100.
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Eleanor Lambert's influence is described as exogenous event risk in mathematical modeling.