1. Joe Eula was a prominent illustrator in the 1960s and 70s, having held the post of creative director at Halston for ten years.
17 Facts About Joe Eula
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Joe Eula was born Joseph Joe Eula in Norwalk, Connecticut, January 16,1925, the second of four children.
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Joe Eula's father died when he was two; Eula's mother, Lena, ran a grocery store to provide for the family.
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Joe Eula graduated from high school in 1942, at age 17, and was enlisted in the 10th Mountain Division to serve in the Italian Campaign.
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Joe Eula later went on to work with Ernestine Carter in the London Sunday Times, covering European fashion.
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Joe Eula maintained a friendly relationship with some of these distinguished figures of the fashion world, especially with Coco Chanel, whose collections he often drew.
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Joe Eula is known to have attended an Yves Saint Laurent couture show on one occasion, only to shout out that it was terrible after a brief time and walk out; his friendship with Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Berge, remained unaffected.
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Joe Eula had close personal and professional relationships with leading figures of other artistic fields, designing a suit for jazz musician Miles Davis, in addition to the stick-like figures on the cover of his 1960 album Sketches of Spain, concert posters for The Supremes and Liza Minnelli's Liza with a "Z".
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Joe Eula designed sets and costumes for Dances At a Gathering and later costumes for The Goldberg Variations at the request of Jerome Robbins of the New York City Ballet.
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Joe Eula famously remedied the situation by adding a white paper strip and sketching the Eiffel Tower with black stove paint and a broom.
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Joe Eula was to remain at Halston as a creative director for most of the 70s.
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Joe Eula died in hospital on October 27,2004, at the age of 79, in Kingston, New York.
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Joe Eula had been hospitalized for pneumonia and a bad reaction to his chemotherapy.
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At the time of his death, Joe Eula lived in Manhattan and Hurley, New York.
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In 2008 Joe Eula was highlighted as an iconic illustrator in the Line of Fashion Design exhibition at the Leslie Lohman Art Foundation, NY.
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In 2020 several Joe Eula artworks were shown at the exhibition Fashion Illustration: The Visionaries: A Century of Illustrations from the Frances Neady Collection, by the Society of Illustrators, NY.
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Also contributed a short video, Halstonette Memoirs: Joe Eula, produced under CRC Inc for the exhibition.