Thread by @artisbrutal2021

Still going through this talk by retired UC Davis professor, Darrell Hamamoto who walks about how the fashion industry is used to influence women and create societal behavioral change. He then focuses on the Kate Spade story.

if you know anything about UC Davis..

But I digress.. He makes some useful points for the uninitiated

2014

"Fifth & Pacific Companies changes its name to become Kate Spade Company..

Fifth & Pacific Companies (Kate Spade, Jack Spade and Lucky Brand), formerly Liz Claiborne, just announced a name change"

Liz Claiborne?
us.fashionnetwork.com/news/fifth-pac…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Claib…
Claiborne was born in Brussels to American parents. She came from a prominent Louisiana family with an ancestor, William C. C. Claiborne, who served as Louisiana's first governor after statehood, during the War of 1812

web.archive.org/web/2020080520…
".. she studied art in painters' studios in Europe, learning almost informally “how to see” and how to use colour. She then spent years, in New York's Garment District along Seventh Avenue, making sketches and picking up pins for male designers.."

Claiborne launched her own design company, Liz Claiborne Inc., in 1976 with husband Art Ortenberg, Leonard Boxer, and Jerome Chazen

Jerome Chazen was a roommate of Ortenberg at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chazen and his wife Simona, a practicing psychotherapist, ..created the Chazen Foundation to support causes they were passionate about, including the University of Wisconsin
archive.ph/cFhfi

Columbia Business School, The Metropolitan Opera, the Museum of Arts and Design, The Louis Armstrong House & Archives, the Lupus Research Alliance, among many other social causes.

The Chazens were also early champions of the American Craft movement, and have supported the American Craft Museum for many years, through its transition to today’s Museum of Arts and Design

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of…

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1581936027580891137

Louis Armstrong.. is another story entirely..

Louis Armstrong jets into Leeds... in 1968..

Louis Armstrong and the All Stars were appearing at Batley Variety Club

But I digress

Wait..

A young Enrico Tomasso and Louis Armstrong..

…rtualexhibits.louisarmstronghouse.org/2020/08/19/enr…

Enrico started playing the trumpet at the age of five. His father, jazz clarinettist Ernie Tomasso, nurtured his inherent talent and gave him every opportunity to hear and meet many jazz greats such as Benny Goodman, Roy Eldridge, Oscar Peterson, Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie,..

"Enrico is one of the major players on the British jazz scene as can be seen by listing just some of his recent collaborations which include those with Scott Hamilton, Marty Grosz, Warren Vache, Dan Barrett, Ken Peplowski, Bucky Pizzarelli,.. the PIZZA EXPRESS All Stars "

Well, that bit's starting to come together.. anyway.. back to the fashion industry story

Biographies of Art Ortenberg tend to focus on his late wife Liz Claiborne and the company they created

The man himself is more of an enigma

However, we can go look at his sister, Gloria Farber, mother of Jennifer Farber Dulos

archive.ph/3QNXF

2020
showbiz411.com/2020/03/08/the…
"The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, even the Hartford Courant– not one of them has written an actual story about Jennifer Farber Dulos, missing and presumed dead since last May. Her husband, Fotis Dulos, is presumed to have killed her

".. But who is Gloria Farber?

In the old days, those journals I mentioned would have been all over the Dulos-Farber story. For some reason, it remains untold"
nytimes.com/1976/09/21/arc…

"Jennifer’s father, Hilliard Farber, died in 2017 .. In 2008 he’d sold the Wall Street firm he founded, Hilliard Farber & Co.

The Farbers also supported CARING at Columbia, a program to assist at risk children. At the time of Hilliard’s death, Gloria served as chairperson."

"The Fifth Avenue spread is not the only Farber home. More suited to five rambunctious children would be their Pound Ridge estate"

38 Mallard Lake Road.. but Google streetview doesn't go there

Interestingly, across the lake, directly opposite..

52 S Bedford Rd, Pound Ridge owned by Greg Manocherian of the Manocherian family

The 2 families move in similar circles..

Fraydun Manocherian at The 4th Annual Bel-Air Film Festival recognized for celebrating cinema in one of Southern California’s most prestigious and storied communities kicked off it’s opening night on October 12, 2011.

BelAir Film Festival sponsored by JetBlue , no less

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1483116117069643780

The Farber and Manocherian families were both involved with the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Gloria Farber, Ed.D. on the Columbia Presbyterian Health Sciences Advisory Council and

Donors :
The Gloria & Hilliard Farber Foundation
Donald Manocherian

nyp.org/pdf/2005-2006_…

Manocherian Brothers and its sister company, Pan Am Equities, are companies owned by the Manocherian family that invest in real estate, primarily tenements on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manocheri…

The Manocherians were also clients of Bernie Madoff:
BERNICE MANOCHERIAN , 135 CENTRAL PARK WEST #9NC
DONALD MANOCHERIAN , 150 EAST 58TH STREET 28TH FL
DR DAREL MANOCHERIAN BENAIM , 135 CENTRAL PARK WEST STE INC
ESTATE OF ESKANDAR MANOCHERIAN , C/O MANOCHERIAN BROTHERS

Jed Manocherian, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci - 2018

Dr. Francis Collins post:

(L-R) "Jed Manocherian, founder and chairman, ACT for NIH; Fred Upton of Michigan; Congresswoman DeLauro; Congresswoman Nita Lowey of NY; Jim Allison, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, .. on my the right is Lizzie Fletcher of Texas. Credit: NIH"

1. "A report on Persian Jews and Fraydun Manocherian :
Fraydun Manocherian raised Baha’i, was born in 1932 to a family of Persian Jewish descent, the son of Yahya Manocherian and his wife Touba (née Lalezari)"

2. Zionist Federation in Iran

4. Sean Rad, Tinder

Happy Ring? 🤔

Eskandar Manocherian was a supporter of Robert Abrams, Former attorney general of New York State

littlesis.org/person/259742-…

https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1582878033177812993

Ok, the Kate Spade stuff will do later..

Just to note , that her brother-in-law David Spade is in Diane Jenkins catalogue "Room 23" .. just saying.. for now..