August 3: Anne Klein

Fashion designer Anne Klein (Hannah Golofski) was born in New York on this date in 1923. Her first company, Junior Sophisticates, transformed the clothing market for young American women by emphasizing a grown-up look. Klein also introduced the idea of “separates” to women’s fashion and applied Coco Chanel’s idea of adapting men’s clothes for women’s use to the American market The Anne Klein label was established in 1968 and has long outlived its founder, who died of breast cancer in 1974 at age 50.

“Clothes aren’t going to change the world. The women who wear them will.” —Anne Klein