Norma Kamali, a native New Yorker who built her more than 50-year-old company in the city, was honored with the City of Design Award.
sleeping bag coat, her swimwear and sweat collection, as well as more recently, the aforementioned Diana dress.
culture of having people take care of each other.” There would be costume parties in their neighborhood, and volunteers would come to the East Side House. People from Broadway would create shows for them and they would learn how to sing and dance. Her mother would make the costumes for the performances. She said her mother didn’t have the opportunity to run a business, but “her power was overwhelming.
She said her mother, who was Lebanese, remarried the only Jewish man in the neighborhood who ran a candy store. “Now we’re Jewish and Italian and clearly I understood what it was like to be different.
Washington Irving High School and created a design studio and trained the children how to learn math through making a dress, or how to tell your story in how a dress is created. Now Washington Irving High School has been divided up into six schools, and she works with art and design students. Every season she donates leftover fabric, every season she reviews their portfolio, and she talks to the students.
She sold a lot of swimwear during COVID-19. After so many weddings were canceled and rescheduled, she quickly started selling dresses. She pointed to the Diana dress, which she did in the ’70s and ’80s. Five years ago she put it on the line again and put a bodysuit in it, and it started selling again. It was selling so much through COVID-19, there were thousands of people wanting to have the dress and they wanted it in many colors.
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