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Sakowitz was a men's clothing store which grew into a small chain of family-owned high-end department stores based in Houston, Texas.It operated from 1902 until 1990. Sakowitz was responsible for launching many of the now-famous European fashion designers in America - among them Andre' Courreges, Yves St. Laurent Rive Gauche, Zandra Rhoades, Givenchy, and Erminegildo
Wyatt is the daughter of Ann Baum Sakowitz (July 28, 1913 - January 18, 2010, San Antonio) and Bernard Sakowitz (1907 - 1981), a prominent couple in Houston's Jewish circles. [3] [4] [5] They were married in July 1933. [6] Ann was once in negotiations with Louis B. Meyer for a movie acting contract, but abandoned it on Bernard's objection. [6]
In 1987, Australian real estate development company L.J. Hooker and its chief executive officer, George Herscu, purchased the controlling interest in the B. Altman stores (as well as Bonwit Teller, Sakowitz and a majority of Parisian). [9] Hooker used these chains as anchors in poorly located, yet extravagant, new shopping centers across the ...
The fashion house continued for three generations until the retirement of his great-grandson, Roger, in 1952. Beatrice, the mother of British fashion designer Dame Zandra Rhodes, worked as a ...
It was the first regional mall in the Houston area, opening as Gulfgate Shopping Center on 20 September 1956 with Joske's, Sakowitz, Weingarten's, J. J. Newberry and W. T. Grant. [2] The architects were John Graham & Company. [3] Popularly known as Gulfgate Mall, many remember this being the first Air Conditioned mall in America
Camelview Plaza, Scottsdale, Arizona, including Sakowitz, Bullock’s, an 11-story Arizona Bank Tower, and Camelview Cinema, 1974. Now merged into Scottsdale Fashion Square. Frank Cuneo Memorial Hospital Extended Care Facility, Chicago, Illinois, 1975; St. Benedict the African Church, Englewood, Illinois, 1987
The True Cost is a 2015 documentary film directed by Andrew Morgan that focuses on fast fashion.It discusses several aspects of the garment industry from production—mainly exploring the life of low-wage workers in developing countries—to its after-effects such as river and soil pollution, pesticide contamination, disease and death.
The use of this technology to create both the fabric and the silhouette of a garment would go on to become a signature code of the house. ‘Mer Ka Ba’ was exhibited as a solo installation at the Jewish Museum in New York, which opened with a runway show featuring a 7 ft temple designed in collaboration with architect Christian Wassmann. [13]