Bill Blass
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1922 - 2002
Occupation
Fashion
Notable Achievements
Description
Fashion designer, recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award (1999). One of the founder members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), he was the first to receive the CFDA Perignon Award for Humanitarian leadership beyond fashion; Blass donated the $25,000 prize to the AIDS care center of New York Hospital. In 1999 Blass sold Bill Blass Limited for $50 million.
