Perry Ellis

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Perry Ellis (born March 3, 1940 in Portsmouth , Virginia , † May 30, 1986 in New York City ) was an American fashion designer . The fashion company he founded in 1978 and named after him still exists today.

Life

After graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth , Virginia , which Ellis graduated in 1957, Ellis studied business administration at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg , Virginia. From there he moved to New York University , where he graduated in 1963 with a master's degree in retail . After graduating from college, Ellis found a position in a Miller & Rhoads fashion retail store in Richmond , Virginia. In Richmond, he co-founded A Sunny Day . Ellis later got a job with the John Meyer sportswear company in New York City. In the mid-1970s, when Ellis was now working for The Vera Companies , the company's management commissioned him to design his own fashion collection. Shortly thereafter, Ellis designed the women's sportswear portfolio in November 1976. In the years that followed, Ellis had great success with his women's sportswear designs, and in 1978 founded his own fashion company, Perry Ellis, as a subsidiary of The Vera Companies . During the 1980s the company, chaired by Ellis, expanded. Ellis was also President of the CFDA ( Council of Fashion Designers of America ) in the 1980s . Ellis is father of a daughter, Tyler Alexandra Gallagher Ellis (born 1984). Her mother, Barbara Gallagher, an American television producer, was friends with Perry Ellis, who lived in a same-sex partnership . In May 1986 Ellis died of complications from AIDS .

Perry Ellis International

The company Perry Ellis International ( NASDAQ - Ticker Symbol : PERY) has its headquarters in Doral , Florida , a suburb of Miami . It has a portfolio of 29 own or licensed brands and is one of the largest manufacturers of men's clothing in the USA. George Feldenkreis is the CEO . After Ellis' death in 1986, The Vera Companies was sold to a Perry Ellis licensee named Salant . In 1999, the Florida textile company Supreme bought the Perry Ellis brand from Salant and finally renamed itself Perry Ellis International . The turnover of Perry Ellis International in 2010/11 were $ 790 million and a net profit of $ 24 million, the company operates in the US over 40 Perry Ellis stores in outlet malls . The Perry Ellis brand is also represented in North American retail. The chief designer at Perry Ellis was John Crocco from late 2006 to 2011. Michael Maccari took on this role from the end of 2013 to the end of 2019. The Perry Ellis brand, which was reduced to men's fashion in the early 2000s and is in the lower mid-price segment, is represented with interruptions at the fashion shows of New York Fashion Week . Fashion designers Isaac Mizrahi , Marc Jacobs, and Tom Ford were all employees at Perry Ellis in the 1980s.

Prizes and awards

  • Ellis won eight Coty Awards (American fashion award ) between 1979 and 1984
  • In 1983 Ellis received the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) fashion award.
  • In 2002, Ellis was posthumously honored with a bronze plaque on the sidewalk of Seventh Avenue in Manhattan , New York's fashion mile ("Fashion Walk of Fame").

Perry Ellis Award

  • After Ellis' death, the annual fashion award was presented as part of the CFDA awards Perry Ellis Award for emerging fashion designers of women's and men's fashion and accessories launched . From 2001, after the new sponsor, the award was named Swarovski ’s Perry Ellis Award and since 2007 has only been called the Swarovski Award . The first fashion designer to receive the Perry Ellis Award was the American designer David Cameron (* 1961) in 1986; This was followed by Marc Jacobs in 1987, Kate Spade in 1995 , Narciso Rodriguez in 1997 , John Varvatos in 2000 , Zac Posen in 2004 , Derek Lam in 2005 and Trovata in 2006 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Her Own Manner  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , W magazine via highbeam.com, July 1, 2001@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.highbeam.com  
  2. ^ Finding the Design in Her DNA , nytimes.com, April 29, 2011
  3. ↑ Article on Perry Ellis' Death in the New York Times, May 31, 1986
  4. ↑ Perry Ellis with profit jump of 83% , textilwirtschaft.de, March 18, 2011
  5. ↑ PERRY ELLIS - MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK SPRING 2012 COLLECTIONS , youtube.com, September 12, 2011
  6. ↑ CFDA - past winners , cfda.com, accessed on March 13, 2015 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Ellis, Perry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Portsmouth , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1986
Place of death New York City