• Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Model Billy Blaire with other models during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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    Model Billy Blaire with other models during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Saks Fifth Avenue's chariman Allan Johnson sits with designers Mollie Parnis, Abe Schrader and Jerry Silverman and guest during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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    Saks Fifth Avenue’s chairman Allan Johnson sits with designers Mollie Parnis, Abe Schrader and Jerry Silverman and guests during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Models in the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show on 5th Ave, New York. St.Patrick's Cathedral shown in the background, 1972.
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    Models in the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show on Fifth Avenue in New York. St. Patrick’s Cathedral shown in the background, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Models in the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show on 5th Ave, New York. St.Patrick's Cathedral shown in the background, 1972.
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    Models in the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show on Fifth Avenue in New York. St. Patrick’s Cathedral shown in the background, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Models in the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show on 5th Ave, New York, 1972.
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    A model in the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show on Fifth Avenue in New York in 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Teal Trainer and guest during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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    Teal Trainer and guest during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Balloon release for the opening of the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, New York.
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    Balloon release for the opening of the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair in New York.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Mayor John Lindsay, Saul Nimowitz, director Apparel Industry Planning and Development, greet designer Molly Pranis and guest during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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    Then-Mayor John Lindsay, Saul Nimowitz, director Apparel Industry Planning and Development, greet designer Molly Pranis during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Model Bethann Hardison and other models backstage before the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show, 1972.
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    Model Bethann Hardison and other models backstage before the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair fashion show, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Members of the IGLWU (International Garment Ladies Workers Union and guest watch as Mayor John Lindsay and dress union boss Murray Gross perform a sewing demonstration, 1972.
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    Members of the IGLWU (International Garment Ladies’ Workers Union) and guests watch as then-Mayor John Lindsay and dress union boss Murray Gross perform a sewing demonstration, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    The New York Coat & Suit Association members greet guest in their tent display during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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    The New York Coat and Suit Association members greet guests in their tent display during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Mayor John Lindsay addresses the crowd during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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    Then-Mayor John Lindsay addresses the crowd during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Guarding the crowds at Rockefeller Center Plaza during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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    Guarding the crowds at Rockefeller Center Plaza during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Designer Oscar de la Renta during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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    Designer Oscar de la Renta during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Local entertainment at Rockefeller Center Plaza during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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    Local entertainment at Rockefeller Center Plaza during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Portrait of WWD editor John Fairchild during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, New York, 1972.
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    Then-WWD editor John B. Fairchild during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair in New York, 1972.

  • Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary

    Corner of street at 7th Avenue and West 38th Street in Manhattan, New York, 2008.
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    View of the street sign at the corner of Seventh Avenue and West 38th Street in Manhattan, New York, 2008.

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