{{short description|American fashion designer}} {{Infobox person | name = Stan Herman | birth_name = Stanley M. Herman | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1928|09|17}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | occupation = Designer | years_active = 1960s- | alma_mater = University of Cincinnati, <br> Traphagen School of Fashion | relatives = | website = http://stanhermanstudio.com/ }}
'''Stan M. Herman''' (born September 17, 1928)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n93097387/|title=Herman, Stanley M. 1928-|last=|first=|date=|website=OCLC World Cat|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> is an American fashion designer. He was President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), a position he held until 2006 at which time Diane von Fürstenberg took over the position. He is also known worldwide for his leading edge corporate uniforms.
==Early life== Stanley M. Herman was born in Brooklyn, New York,<ref name="loewsmagazine.com" /> and grew up in a Jewish family in Passaic, New Jersey,<ref name="nytimes.com" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Feitelberg|first=Rosemary|date=2015-11-18|title=Stan Herman Offers Historic Take on Fashion and his Career|url=https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/92y-cfda-stan-herman-fern-mallis-10281965/|access-date=2021-02-21|website=WWD|language=en-US}}</ref> His father owned a chain of silk shops.<ref name=":0" /> where he attended Passaic High School.<ref>Averett, Nancy. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-herald-news-profile-of-stan-herman/165454689/ "Design for Life Began in Passaic; Stan Herman is Still a Fashionable Force"], ''Herald News'', November 29, 1998. Accessed February 14, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "The son of Austrian Jewish immigrants who made their way to Passaic via Ellis Island, Herman had what he calls an 'MGM' childhood. He remembers Passaic as bustling Jewish enclave, where he grew up virtually unaware of the anti-Semitic sentiments that dominated Europe in the 1930s and '40s. He said Passaic High School, where he graduated, was tops in New Jersey in those years."</ref> Herman graduated in 1950 from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati.<ref name="nytimes.com" /><ref name="magazine.uc.edu" /><ref name="uc.edu" /> He continued his studies at the Traphagen School of Fashion, graduating in 1952 in Costume Design.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exhibitions.fitnyc.edu/traphagen-school/traphagen-alumni/|title=Traphagen Alumni, The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion|last=|first=|date=19 February 2019|website=Museum at FIT|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-01}}</ref> Herman then served in the United States Army during the Korean War.<ref name="loewsmagazine.com" />
After the War, Herman moved to New York City. Fired from his first fashion design job, he worked in Broadway theatre at night while designing part-time during the day. He left show business to pursue fashion full-time after launching his first collection, which ''Women's Wear Daily'' declared an unqualified success. Herman then became head designer for ready-to-wear company Mr. Mort on Seventh Avenue.<ref name="loewsmagazine.com" /><ref name="magazine.uc.edu" /><ref name="exposedzippers.com" />
==Career== Herman first designed a uniform after a request from the president of the Avis car rental company. He has since designed uniforms for many well-known companies such as Amtrak, Federal Express, JetBlue, Avis, Loews Hotels & Resorts, McDonald's, Trans World Airlines (TWA), U.S. Airways and United Airlines.<ref name="loewsmagazine.com" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4EstCRo-wBsC&pg=RA1-PA238|title=Cincinnati Magazine|date=May 2008|publisher=Emmis Communications|pages=238|language=en}}</ref>
He served as president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)<ref name="loewsmagazine.com" /> from 1991 to 2006.<ref name="fashionista.com" /><ref name="cfda.com 2" /> In 1993, Herman and CFDA executive director Fern Mallis consolidated the events known as New York Fashion Week by staging them in white tents in Bryant Park, branding it as "7th on Sixth".<ref name="loewsmagazine.com" /><ref name="fashionista.com" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jewish Center of the Hamptons {{!}} The Salon: Stan Herman & Fern Mallis – Fern Mallis|date=30 July 2019 |url=https://fernmallis.com/jewish-center-of-the-hamptons-the-salon-stan-herman-fern-mallis/|access-date=2021-02-21|language=en-US}}</ref>
Herman has designed a loungewear and sleepwear collection for QVC since 1993.<ref name="magazine.uc.edu" /><ref name="exposedzippers.com" /><ref name="fashionista.com" />
== Awards == Herman won three Coty Awards,<ref name="nytimes.com" /> between 1969 and 1974.<ref name="loewsmagazine.com" />
In 2006, Herman was awarded the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award by the CFDA.<ref name="geoffreybeene.com" />
He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cincinnati in 2008.<ref name="uc.edu" />
== Personal life == At 24, Stan Herman met Gene Horowitz, a teacher and writer, with whom he was in a relationship for 39 years, until Horowitz died in 1991.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wadler|first=Joyce|date=1998-09-11|title=PUBLIC LIVES; Designer Looks Back With Pain and Pride (Published 1998)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/11/nyregion/public-lives-designer-looks-back-with-pain-and-pride.html|access-date=2021-02-21|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Lambert|first=Bruce|date=1992-01-13|title=E. B. Horowitz Dies; Manhattan Novelist And Ex-Teacher, 61 (Published 1992)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/13/nyregion/e-b-horowitz-dies-manhattan-novelist-and-ex-teacher-61.html|access-date=2021-02-21|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== References == <references>
<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news | title = Designer Looks Back With Pain and Pride | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/11/nyregion/public-lives-designer-looks-back-with-pain-and-pride.html | work = The New York Times | first = Joyce | last = Wadler | date = September 11, 1998 }}</ref>
<ref name="magazine.uc.edu">{{cite magazine | title = Stylish and comfortable: Designer Stan Herman dresses the world for work and relaxation | url = http://magazine.uc.edu/issues/1000/herman.html | magazine = Horizons | publisher = University of Cincinnati | first = Mary | last = Niehaus | date = October 2000 }}</ref>
<ref name="uc.edu">{{cite press release | title = Award-Winning Fashion Design Pioneer Stan Herman to Receive Honorary Doctorate from UC | url = https://www.uc.edu/News/NR.aspx?ID=8274 | publisher = University of Cincinnati | date = May 6, 2008 }}</ref>
<ref name="loewsmagazine.com">{{cite magazine |title = The People's Designer – Stan Herman |url = http://loewsmagazine.com/stan-herman/ |magazine = Loews Magazine |first = Louis |last = Chunovic |date = April 16, 2014 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20161122225417/http://loewsmagazine.com/stan-herman/ |archivedate = November 22, 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="exposedzippers.com">{{cite news | title = Interview: Stan Herman – Fashion designer and businessman | url = http://exposedzippers.com/stan-herman/ | work = Exposed Zippers | date = February 12, 2015 }}</ref>
<ref name="fashionista.com">{{cite magazine | title = How Stan Herman, Father of Fashion Week, Changed the U.S. Fashion Industry | url = http://fashionista.com/2015/06/stan-herman-father-of-fashion-week | magazine = Fashionista | first = Chantal | last = Fernandez | date = June 29, 2015 }}</ref>
<ref name="cfda.com 2">{{cite web | title = About CFDA: History | url = https://cfda.com/about-cfda/history | publisher = Council of Fashion Designers of America | accessdate = November 22, 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="geoffreybeene.com">{{cite web | title = Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award | url = http://geoffreybeene.com/geoffrey-beene-lifetime-achievement-award-cfda-geoffrey-beene-design-scholar-award/ | publisher = Geoffrey Beene | accessdate = November 22, 2016 | archive-date = October 20, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171020205246/http://geoffreybeene.com/geoffrey-beene-lifetime-achievement-award-cfda-geoffrey-beene-design-scholar-award/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://cfda.com/members/profile/stan-herman-2 Stan Herman] at CFDA * [https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/items/show/898 Stan Herman interview, July 2017] at the Fashion Institute of Technology's Special Collections and College Archives
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