Alexander Julian

Infobox Fashion Designer


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name = Alexander Julian
nationality = American
birth_date = 1948
birth_place = Chapel Hill, North Carolina
spouse = Meagan (1986—present)cite news |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/105/v-print/story/458993.html |title=Living in colours |author=Samantha Thompson Smith |date=2006-07-10 |accessdate=2008-09-27 |publisher=News & Observer]
death_date =
death_place =
education = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
label_name = Colours by Alexander Julian
significant_design=
awards=Coty Award|

Alexander Julian (born 1948) is an American clothing designer. He is most notable for his Colours clothing brand.

Early Life

Born to Mary [cite news|title=Wearing well; Living with knockoffs - but in style; |date=1995-09-03 |accessdate=2008-09-27 |publisher=Boston Globe |author=Sheryl Julian |p=65] and Maurice S. Julian, Julian was raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina, a childhood playmate of James Taylor. [cite news |publisher=News & Observer |date=2007-01-05 |accessdate=2008-09-27 |author=Samantha Thompson Smith |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/528925.html |title=What made Julian famous] His father, Maurice S. Julian (1916 - 1993), [cite news|date=1993-09-23 |accessdate=2008-09-27 |title=Maurice Julian |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADE086EBBD35B1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date] was a clothier who opened the clothing store Julian's in 1942. [cite web|url=http://www.julianstyle.com/site/history.php#AhistoryInbrief |title=Julians: In Brief |accessdate=2008-09-27] After working in his father's clothing store, he opened his first store in Chapel Hill, Alexander's Ambition, at age 19. [cite news |title=Alexander Julian to help design local homes |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/572222.html |date=2007-05-09 |accessdate=2008-09-27 |author=Dudley Wright] cite web |url=http://www.julianstyle.com/site/history.php#AhistoryAlexanderJulian |accessdate=2008-09-27 |title=Julian's: History]

Career

Julian moved to New York in 1975 and founded Alexander Julian Company. He won five Coty Awards for design — the first before age 30 — and later won the Cutty Sark award three times.

He started the successful Colours by Alexander Julian line in 1981, and was the first designer to create his own fabrics.cite web |title=Alexander Julian License Moving to Vaughan-Bassett |url=http://www.hfbusiness.com/story/story.bsp?var=story&sid=89801 |accessdate=2008-09-27 |date=2008-01-28 |publisher=North American Publishing Company]

Later, he branched out to furniture and home furnishings, and in 2008 moved his furniture licensing to Vaughan-Bassett.

References

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NAME=Julian, Alexander
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American fashion designer and business executive
DATE OF BIRTH=1948
PLACE OF BIRTH=Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
DATE OF DEATH=
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