Cashin, Bonnie

Cashin, Bonnie
▪ 2001

      American fashion designer (b. Sept. 28, 1915, Oakland, Calif.—d. Feb. 3, 2000, New York, N.Y.), was a highly influential innovator who created loose-fitting sportswear and light, layered clothes. She first designed sportswear for the fashion house Adler & Adler from 1937 to 1943. Working for Twentieth Century Fox from 1944 to 1949, Cashin created clothes for some 60 films, including Laura (1944) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1944). She started her own company, Bonnie Cashin Designs, in 1952 and was one of the world's most prominent designers during the following two decades. In 1972 Cashin was inducted into the Coty American Fashion Critics Hall of Fame.

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