Mary McFadden Ladies Super Luxury Slacks

Born in New York in October 1938. She went to Paris to study at the Ecole Lubec and the Sorbonne. In 1957, she attended New York's Traphagen School of Design, before taking a sociology degree at Columbia University. Her first job was in public relations for Dior. In 1973, she presented to the public, her first designs which were based on African and Oriental fabrics. She began designing evening gowns in pleated silk using a unique "Marii" technique, which she patented in 1975. *Mariano Fortuny