Adele Filene

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Adele Filene (Adelheid Bleichröder) (born June 14, 1909 in Berlin ; † August 8, 2010 in Stamford , USA) was a German fashion designer of Jewish origin.

Life

Adele Filene's great-grandfather was Samuel Bleichröder , the founder of the S. Bleichröder banking house . Her father was the doctor Fritz Bleichröder .

At the age of six, Adele Filene attended a private school and later the Lyceum in Görschstrasse (later Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium ) in Berlin. She was an apprentice tailor and spent a year at an arts and crafts school in Vienna. She designed patterns for a fashion magazine for the Ullstein publishing house . She married in 1930 and emigrated with her husband in 1936, initially without her twins, to London , England. In 1951 the marriage was divorced; In 1968 she married again and moved to live with her husband in New York , USA. Filene was a major member of the Women's City Club of New York ; u. a. she was one of ten Honorary Directors there .

Adele Filene designed in particular sportswear and handbags. In addition, she published various specialist articles on the subject of fashion design . In 1973 she was one of the six founding members of the Costume Society of America (CSA) . From 1973 to 1979 she was the treasurer of the company. The CSA has been awarding her the Adele Filene Student Presenter Grant in her honor since 1996 .

literature

  • Adele Filene: A Bibliography of recent books relating to costume , Costume Society of America, 1975.
  • Adele Filene: Bibliography 1979 , Costume Society of America, 1979.
  • Adele Filene: The Costume Society of America bibliography, 1983 , Costume Society of America, 1983.
  • Inge Lammel (Ed.): Jewish ways of life. A cultural-historical foray through Pankow and Niederschönhausen , Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, 2007, ISBN 3-938485-53-1 and ISBN 978-3-938485-53-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice in www.tributes.com
  2. ^ NYT: Paid Death Notices
  3. ^ Carl von Ossietzky Gymnasium: School History ( Memento from March 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Inge Lammel (Ed.): Jüdische Lebenswege. A cultural-historical foray through Pankow and Niederschönhausen , Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, 2007, p. 185.
  5. ↑ Women's City Club of New York ( Memento from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 167 kB)
  6. ↑ CSA: Founder
  7. ^ Costume Society of America: Adele Filene Student Presenter Grant
personal data
SURNAME Filene, Adele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bleichröder, Adelheid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2010
Place of death Stamford , USA