Pioneering designer Arthur McGee, 86, will be honored at a memorial.
A memorial service will be held on March 25, 2020, in New York to celebrate the life of pioneering designer Arthur McGee, who died July 1.
Well-mannered and gentle, McGee forged into fashion at a time of great racial divide in the U.S. Inspired by definitive designers like Claire McCardell and Adrian, McGee was not to be deterred. “When you love fashion, you do it no matter what. They try to keep us in a corner but I know I’m good, and I’ll be designing when I’m 95.”
A few months after opening The Store in December 1965, McGee explained that he wasn’t interested in the fickle shopper, who is always looking for a new store. “I am interested in the woman who wants to build a wardrobe of simple, unadorned ‘clean’ dresses in good fabrics made in ways that mass production would prohibit.”
In the late Sixties, McGee was one of early black designers to run his own business. Jimmie Daugherty, John Weston, John Simmons, Stephen Burroughs and Scott Barrie were among the others. McGee was a supporter of the Fashion Coalition, a group formed in 1968 to promote the advancement of blacks in the fashion industry and to encourage more to join.
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