Chanel is a name which has long-sense been linked with all things chic.  The woman behind the vision was Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel , a force so far ahead of her time that she shaped all of fashion history in the 20th century.

Born on August 19, 1883 in Suamur, France, Chanel came of age at the […]

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The devil indeed often wears Prada.  

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Diana Vreeland, a quintessential taste-maker, was born in France, but moved to the U.S. with her fmaily once World War I broke out.
 
After marriage, Vreeland moved for a short time to England with her husband.  While living there, she ran a lingerie company.  During that period in the 1930’s Vreeland also befriended many fashion industry insiders, including […]

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It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for Fashion Lawyer with a flurry of behind the scenes activity.  We have so many amazing things coming your way very soon, so just hang in with us.  I will be providing daily coverage of Women’s History Month, by providing special postings on fashion industry insiders, who’ve helped to […]

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Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Edith Sampson (maiden name Spurlock), became a successful lawyer and judge, as well as the first African-American delegate to the United Nations.

Sampson studied at the New York School of Social Work, and later, while working as a social worker, attended law school at John Marshall in Chicago, earning a degree in 1925.   Prior […]

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As the first African-American Secretary of Commerce, Ronald Harmon Brown served the U.S. under the first Clinton administration.

Born in Washington, D.C. on August 1, 1941 Brown moved to Harlem as a young boy.  Also in his young days, Brown was one of the first African-Americans to appear in an advertisement for Pepsi (below).
A graduate of Middlebury […]

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As the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Carol Moseley Braun represented the Democratic party and furthered liberal causes.

Born on August 16, 1947, in Chicago, Braun (maiden name Moseley) spent her early life in the same city as her birth, even attending college and law school there.  She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Illionis at Chicago in […]

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While she is most well-known for being the wife of Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama is quite accomplished all on her own.

Michelle Obama, maiden name Robinson, was born on Chicago’s South Shore to two working parents.  She excelled in school from an early age, even skipping the second grade.  She went to to graduate cum laude from Princeton University […]

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One of the most successful practicing litigators alive, Willie E. Gary has won over 150 multi-million dollar lawsuits, including one award of $500 million dollars in damages (Wikipedia).

Gary was born on July 12, 1947 in Eastman, Georgia as one of eleven children to a family of migrant farm workers.  He used his athletic abilities as a football […]

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Born in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., on June 13, 1937, Eleanor Holmes Norton began her life in the same city which has helped to shape it.

Norton earned her graduate degree from Antioch College in 1960.  Three years later, she graduated with an M.A. from Yale, and in 1964, Norton was awarded an L.L.B. from Yale Law School, making […]

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