George W. Trippon (February 26, 1916 - January 1, 2010) was a Romanian-American teacher, fashion designer and author known for operating the Trippon Fashion Center design school in Los Angeles during the 1950s [1] and for a long-running TV show "Sew, What's New?" on The Learning Channel during the 1980s and 1990s. [2]
Trippon was born in 1916 in Aurora, Illinois to parents George and Mary, both Romanian immigrants. [2] At age 9, he attended dance school and later appeared in a number of Hollywood musicals. He served in World War II as a Quartermaster, and after discharge, he studied fashion design in Paris and Los Angeles. [3] He opened his own fashion design school and operated it during the 1950s. [1] In 1956, he was elected president of the Hollywood Beauty League, an organization dedicated to promoting Los Angeles as a cultural hub. [4]
In the 1970s, Trippon began presenting a television show "Sew, What's New?" on local television in Los Angeles; in the 1980s the show moved to The Learning Channel and broadcast there until the 1990s. [2]
Trippon also authored several books on fashion design as well as memoirs.
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Rudolf "Rudi" Gernreich was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. He purposefully used fashion design as a social statement to advance sexual freedom, producing clothes that followed the natural form of the female body, freeing them from the constraints of high fashion.
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