{{Short description|American costume designer (1901–1971)}} '''Mark Mooring''' (1901–1971) was an American fashion and costume designer. thumb|right|Mark Mooring, 1947 He grew up in Texas and graduated from Parsons School of Design, New York, in 1923.<ref name=arch>{{cite web |title=Mark Mooring collection, 1923-1959 |url=https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/82121846 |website=researchworks.oclc.org |access-date=11 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> After this, he designed costumes for Broadway theatre productions including ''Song of the Flames'' (1925) and ''Dearest Enemy'' (1926).<ref name=nyobit>{{cite news |title=MARK MOORING, 71, FASHION DESIGNER |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/13/archives/markmooring-i-fashion-designer-exaide-at-bergdors-dies-won-critics.html |access-date=11 June 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=13 January 1971}}</ref>
Between 1933 and 1948, Mooring was a designer for the custom department of Bergdorf Goodman.<ref name=nyobit/> While there he worked alongside Leslie Morris and Mary Gleason, and the three of them became known as a strong design team and the store's best known designers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crawford |first1=Morris De Camp |title=The Ways of Fashion |date=1941 |publisher=G.P. Putnam |page=239 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-f5CAAAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pope |first1=Virginia |title=Suave Charm Seen in New Fashions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/03/07/archives/suave-charm-seen-in-new-fashions-suave-lines-tell-the-spring-style.html |work=The New York Times |date=7 March 1946}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pope |first1=Virginia |title=Simple Elegance Marks Style Show |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/09/06/archives/simple-elegance-marks-style-show-a-long-suit-for-dining-after-dark.html |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=6 September 1946}}</ref> For his work at Bergdorf's, Mooring was awarded a Coty Award in 1947 alongside Jacob H. Horwitz, Nettie Rosenstein and Adele Simpson. The awards that year were awarded to representatives of the four main branches of the American fashion industry, with Mooring representing bespoke high-end design while the others represented high end wholesale (Rosenstein), mid-priced wholesale (Simpson) and junior fashion (Horwitz).<ref name="lois">{{cite news |last1=Fegan |first1=Lois |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2752650/harrisburg_telegraph/|title=Dress Parade|date=2 October 1947|work=The Harrisburg Telegraph |access-date=6 June 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Women dressed by Mooring included Ina Claire and Margaret Leighton.<ref name=nyobit/> After working for Elizabeth Arden and other Seventh Avenue establishments, he would return to Bergdorf's in 1960.<ref name=nyobit/>
In 1962 Mooring moved to Hollywood, where he worked with a designer called Marusia until his death, aged 71, on January 5, 1971, following a stroke.<ref name=nyobit/>
Garments designed by him are preserved in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,<ref>{{cite web |title=Evening dress, 1938 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/158084 |website=www.metmuseum.org |publisher=Metropolitan Museum |access-date=11 June 2022}}</ref> and the Fashion Institute of Technology holds a collection of sketches and drawings,<ref name=nyobit/> as well as archives covering the years 1923 to 1959.<ref name=arch/>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Bergdorf Goodman|state=collapsed}}
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