Fashion Ave 50th Anniversary
Model Billy Blaire with other models during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
Model Billy Blaire with other models during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
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.
Models in the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show on Fifth Avenue in New York. St. Patrick’s Cathedral shown in the background, 1972.
Models in the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show on Fifth Avenue in New York. St. Patrick’s Cathedral shown in the background, 1972.
A model in the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, fashion show on Fifth Avenue in New York in 1972.
Teal Trainer and guest during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
Balloon release for the opening of the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair in New York.
Then-Mayor John Lindsay, Saul Nimowitz, director Apparel Industry Planning and Development, greet designer Molly Pranis during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
Model Bethann Hardison and other models backstage before the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair fashion show, 1972.
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.
The New York Coat and Suit Association members greet guests in their tent display during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
Then-Mayor John Lindsay addresses the crowd during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
Guarding the crowds at Rockefeller Center Plaza during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
Designer Oscar de la Renta during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
Local entertainment at Rockefeller Center Plaza during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair, 1972.
Then-WWD editor John B. Fairchild during the Fifth Avenue Fashion Fair in New York, 1972.
View of the street sign at the corner of Seventh Avenue and West 38th Street in Manhattan, New York, 2008.