Fern Mallis is a celebrated fashion consultant. For ten years, from 1991 to 2001, she was the executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). In 1993, she started the initiative to organize the event "Seventh on Sixth," now known as New York Fashion Week, and orchestrated the events move to the tents in Bryant Park, where shows have now been running for 15 years. A noted philanthropist, Mallis has spearheaded charity events and initiatives that have raised millions of dollars for organizations like Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids (DIFFA) and the CFDA's Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, which has raised close to $100 million in merchandising and licensing. Mallis is the recipient of a great many industry awards and accolades: The Fashion Maverick Award from the American Apparel and Footwear Assoc.; Woman of the Year Leadership Award from Concern Worldwide. In May 2013, she gave the Fashion Institute of Technology's keynote commencement address and was awarded with the rarely bestowed FIT President's Lifetime Achievement Award.
"Every so often, the glamorous veil that conceals the vulnerable
and human aspects of the most famous fashion influencers is lifted.
Fern Mallis’s enlightening 92nd Street Y interviews were all about
those moments. . . . Luckily for those not in the audience to
witness these conversations firsthand, the doyenne has compiled
transcriptions from 19 of the most intriguing sit-downs in a new
book, Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis (Rizzoli). With
a foreword by Ralph Lauren, the tome features full recaps as well
as photos from the interviewee’s childhoods, career milestones, and
editorial achievements. Leaving no stone unturned, Mallis’
questions cover drug and alcohol abuse, personal relationships,
and, of course, work, drilling her colleagues with everything from
'Do you believe in astrology?' to 'Do you care about the critics?'
In other words, everything you wanted to know about fashion, but
were afraid to ask." -W Magazine
"[Fern Mallis has] talked to (almost) everybody who is anybody in
American fashion." -The Daily Front Row
"Since 2011, the award-winning curator of New York Fashion
Week has conducted in-depth and entertaining interviews with
some of the most prestigious talents in the fashion industry,
including Oscar de la Renta, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Tom Ford
and more. Nineteen of those no-holds-barred interviews have been
gathered into a new, 448-page coffee table book called Fashion
Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis." -The Fashion Spot
"It hasn’t always been pulsing catwalks, Champagne-fueled parties
and celebrity hobnobbing for fashion’s superstar designers. . . .
[using] Mallis’ “Inside the Actors Studio”-style lectures at
the 92nd Street Y, [Fashion Lives] offers candid personal accounts
from style-world luminaries, many of whom got their start in and
around NYC." -New York Post
"...a juicy exploration of the lives of the people who set the
trends and dress the stars." -Publishers Weekly
"Fashion Lives is big as a MacBook and heavy as a small barbell,
but if you like to read about fashion, you’ll find it as light as
an airport page-turner. Dish? Honey, the dish does not quit.
Emotion? Hey, this is fashion, not physics. Intelligence,
compassion, ideas? Yes, in quantity, and not so much because the 19
designers, photographers and editors interviewed here are so verbal
but because the interviewer is so hamish and well prepared that her
guests nearly forget they’re onstage at the 92nd Street Y."
-HeadButler.com
"...the material inside is as in-depth, personal, and must-read as
they come." -Stylish.com
"This revealing volume features intimate interviews with the
fashion industry's most talented luminaries, adding a fascinating
personal perspective to their work. Profound, funny, and
provocative." -SocietyDiaries.com
"Mallis paints a vivid picture of the inner workings of the fashion
industry and offers unprecedented entrée into the minds of the
people who make it great." -Newsday
"Many a fashion tome claims to bring readers inside the world of
fashion, but trust us; there is arguably no better guide than Fern
Mallis to take you there." -AM New York
"Fashion Lives should become a textbook or at least mandatory
reading for all budding designers, future fashionphiles, and anyone
who inhabits the fashion business or considers themselves an
aficionado of the 'art form.'" -New York Journal of Books
"Fashion has its fair share of influencers, but it is difficult to
find one who has profoundly impacted and help mold the industry as
much as Fern Mallis has." -The Imprint|The Impression
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