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Trendsetters: Dolores Gonzales
Season 5 Episode 10
The designs of Dolores Gonzales (1907 - 1994) became a fashion craze throughout the 1950s and were even worn by two First Ladies. Dolores was dubbed …
2 years, 7 months ago
Trendsetters: Helen Gurley Brown
Season 5 Episode 9
Helen Gurley Brown (c.1922-2012) helped shape a new vision of working girls. As editor and chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and author of the internati…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trendsetters: Donna Summer
Season 5 Episode 8
Donna Summer (1948 - 2012) was a musician who provided the soundtrack for America’s disco era. Her breathy voice and sensual music gave her the title…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trendsetters: Hanae Mori
Season 5 Episode 7
Hanae Mori (c. 1926-2022), known in the fashion world as “Madame Butterfly,” broke barriers between East and West. She was the first Japanese designe…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trendsetters: Colleen Moore
Season 5 Episode 6
Colleen Moore (1899 - 1988) was Hollywood’s original flapper. Throughout the Roaring Twenties, she popularized the bob-style haircut through dozens o…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trendsetters: Ruth Westheimer
Season 5 Episode 5
Dr. Ruth Westheimer (1928 - present) has helped her listeners, viewers, and readers have more fulfilling sex for over four decades. Her disarming and…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trendsetters: Caresse Crosby
Season 5 Episode 4
Caresse Crosby (1892-1970) was the inventor of the bra and a godmother to some of the biggest artists and literary names from the Lost Generation. Sh…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trendsetters: Oei Hui-lan
Season 5 Episode 3
Oei Hui-lan (1899-1992) was a dazzling socialite who used her style and fashion to walk between cultures and worlds of fashion and politics. Known fo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trendsetters: Mary Quant
Season 5 Episode 2
Mary Quant (1930-2023) was one of the most iconic fashion designers of the 1960s. Her designs forever changed the way women dressed, bringing the whi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trendsetters: Ann Lowe
Season 5 Episode 1
Ann Lowe (c. 1898-1981) designed some of the most iconic couture dresses of the mid-20th century, including Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding dress. As th…
2 years, 7 months ago