About
Fashion designer most recognized for being the first to make clothes with Ultra suede material.
Before Fame
She graduated from Leonia High School in New Jersey.
Trivia
She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet until she married her husband in 1924.
Family Life
She divorced her first husband, Raymond J. Maxwell, in 1937.
Associated With
She and designer Anne Fogarty have both won a Neiman Marcus Award.
