Vera Neumann for Formfit Rogers

Part 39 ON MY VINTAGE COUTURE COLLECTION: Video #6 On a series of Vera videos showcasing my collection that spans 60 years of her empire. I received some fantastic news about Vera Neumann: "Hello Francisco, It was great to discover your appreciation for the work of my aunt, Vera Neumann with whom I was very close and worked with her for many years. In the 1970's I produced several films about her and have now remastered them to dvd and they are distributed at: http://www.goldenageproductions.info Incidentally, Vera was born in 1907 (not in 1910). My father, Philip Salaff, Vera's brother was born in 1910. They worked together for more than 35 years." VERA NEUMANN), U.S. artist and designer (b. July 24, 1907, Stamford, Conn.--d. June 15, 1993, North Tarrytown, N.Y.), created brightly coloured scarves, bedroom and kitchen linens, and draperies and sportswear that bore her name. Vera, who had been a designer of children's furniture and murals, used only her first name after founding (1946), with her husband, George Neumann, and F. Werner Hamm, a textile expert, the Vera Companies for silk-screened prints. She created both realistic and abstract designs, and her motifs included flowers, leaves, ferns, grass, vegetables, the Sun, and ladybugs. Her designs also adorned plastics and needlepoint products. Vera served as president of the company, which became a subsidiary of Manhattan Industries in 1967 and, from 1988, a division of Salant Corp. She continued to produce designs under the Vera signature until shortly before her death. In 1972 the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. mounted an exhibit of her designs. Video made to showcase my collection of designer couture from all over the world. QUOTE FROM A PRESS RELEASE! "Francisco Medavogs collection started off as a small sampling of some European couture designs to help him study FASHION design. By looking at the French seams and other intricacies, he learned about couture construction through the true masters of design. This hobby quickly became a collection of more than 25,000 fashion items, primarily 20th century European designs, with a number of them extending back to the 1920s and 30s. "At first, I didn't quite understand why so many people were interested in seeing these clothes," says Francisco. "For me, the clothes were simply great examples of what I was able to study while at the Fashion Institute. Now, I feel that my collection is the beginning of a wonderful museum collection." "I'd love to open the first American Fashion Museum, devoted solely to fashion and couture, similar to Zandra Rhodes' museum in London." http://www.theveracompany.com http://www.medavog.com GREAT BIO HERE: http://www.lulusvintage.com/2007/04/x_is_for.html http://fashionsfinest.fuzzylizzie.com/vera.html