LIZ CLAIBORNE LIZSPORT LADIES PURE COTTON SEERSUCKER CHECK (2) BUTTON LUX BLAZER

LIZSPORT LADIES PURE COTTON SEERSUCKER CHECK (2) BUTTON LUX BLAZER GREEN/WHITE SEERSUCKER LUXURY FABRIC SPRING/SUMMER WARDROBE ESSENTIAL CHEST POCKET (2) BUTTON CLOSURE (2) BARRELL POCKETS LIGHTWEIGHT UNLINED *ALL NATURAL FIBERS NO FLAWS! Career In 1949, Claiborne won the Jacques Heim National Design Contest (sponsored by Harper's Bazaar), and then moved to Manhattan where she worked for years in the Garment District on Seventh Avenue, as a sketch artist at Tina Leser, the sportswear producer. She also worked for the former Hollywood costume designer-turned-fashion designer, Omar Kiam. She worked as a designer for the Dan Keller and Youth Group Inc. fashion labels. Claiborne became frustrated by the failure of the companies that employed her to provide practical clothes for working women, so, with husband Art Ortenberg, Leonard Boxer, and Jerome Chazen, she launched her own design company, Liz Claiborne Inc., in 1976. It was an immediate success, with sales of $2 million in 1976 and $23 million in 1978. By 1988, it had acquired one-third of the American women's upscale sportswear market In 1980, Liz Claiborne Accessories was founded through employee Nina McLemore (who decades later would launch a label of her own, in 2001). Liz Claiborne Inc. went public in 1981 and made the Fortune 500 list in 1986 with retail sales of $1.2 billion.