Remembering Leo Brody. (of UFO Contemporary Inc.)

From: Daily News Record | Date: October 24, 1988| Author: Spevack, Rachel | Copyright information

REMEMBERING LEO BRODY

Leo Brody's life proved that one person really can make a difference. The founder and president of UFO Contemporary, Inc., who died last month at the age of 71, had a remarkable impact on the development of boutiques as a legitimate form of retailing in this country. In the late '60s, Brody served as unofficial mentor to a group of young people who wanted to open new kinds of apparel stores, the kind that sold funky military surplus jackets alongsid...

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