Fashion Group

Fashion Group

The Fashion Group International is a global, non-profit, professionalorganization for the fashion industry founded in 1930.

Founding and charter members included Elizabeth Arden,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Helena Rubinstein, Lilly Dache,
Edith Head, Mary Brooks Picken, and Claire McCardell.

The Fashion Group's archives, spanning six decades of the fashion industry, are now housed at the New York Public Library.

References

* [http://www.fgi.org/ The Fashion Group International website]


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