Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne was an American fashion designer and businesswoman.
18 Facts About Liz Claiborne
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Liz Claiborne's success was built upon stylish yet affordable apparel for career women featuring colorfully tailored separates that could be mixed and matched.
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Liz Claiborne was the first woman to become chair and CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
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Liz Claiborne, who served as Louisiana's first governor after statehood, during the War of 1812.
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Liz Claiborne attended St Timothy's School for Girls, a small boarding school in Maryland.
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Rather than finishing high school, Liz Claiborne went to Europe to study art in the studios of painters.
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Liz Claiborne's father did not believe that she needed an education, so she studied art informally.
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In 1949, Liz Claiborne won the Jacques Heim National Design Contest, and then moved to Manhattan where she worked for years in the Garment District on Seventh Avenue, as a sketch artist at Tina Leser, the sportswear producer.
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Liz Claiborne worked as a designer for the Dan Keller and Youth Group Inc fashion labels.
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Marketing strategies that Liz Claiborne developed changed the nature of retail stores.
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For example, Liz Claiborne insisted that her line of clothing be displayed separately, as a department to itself and including all of the items she offered.
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In 1980, Liz Claiborne Accessories was founded through employee Nina McLemore.
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Liz Claiborne listed all employees in her corporate directory in alphabetical order, to circumvent what she perceived as male hierarchies.
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Liz Claiborne had a son from her first marriage, Alexander G Shultz, and two stepchildren from her second marriage, Neil Ortenberg and Nancy Ortenberg.
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Liz Claiborne's husband retired at the same time, leaving the other founders as the active managers.
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Liz Claiborne received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Liz Claiborne had been advised in May 1997 that she had a rare form of cancer affecting the lining of the abdomen.
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Liz Claiborne died of the cancer on June 26,2007, at the age of 78.