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Bill Blass History
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William (Bill) Ralph Blass was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA in 1922. His father ran the local hardware store, but died when Bill was only 5 years old. He started sketching when very young, copying the dresses he saw in the movies and in magazines. After completing high school, he started sending his designs to companies in New York, and sold several. In 1939, when he was 17, he left the Midwest and went to New York, and started studying fashion design at Parsons School of Design. On graduation he worked as a sketcher for David Crystal, a Sportswear manufacturer, before being drafted for military service. In 1945, after the war ended, he moved to Anna Miller and Cio., as a designer. Mrs Miller retired in 1959 and by that time Bill Blass was her chief designer. Her company was merged with that of her brother Maurice Rentner. His designs were very successful, and the company began to be more and more in his image. In 1970 he bought the company and it became Bill Blass Ltd. Bill Blass is viewed as the quintessential twentieth-century American designer. For over 30 years, he was sole owner of Bill Blass, Ltd. He was one of the first Americans to design men’s as well as women’s clothing, over the years he expanded his line to include everything from sportswear to shoes, sunglasses, jeans, fragrances, airline uniforms, Lincoln Town Cars, furniture, linens, and even chocolates.
From his tailored daywear to his playful resort clothes and sculpted evening gowns, Blass’s creations carried his signature style. He maneuvered comfortably through the decades, responding to fashion trends without falling prey to short-lived fads and fancies. The undeniable durability of his style was dramatized in 1996, when he offered a line-for-line reproduction of one of his own Anna Miller suits from 1951: gifted with impeccable timing, Blass instinctively knew exactly how and when his public would embrace such a revival.
When Blass retired following the showing of his Spring 2000 collection, he left his devoted customers wanting more.
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