Arthur ortenberg and cathy horyn biography
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Anyone want to bet we have not heard the last of Cathy Horyn? She left The New York Times to take care of her “partner” – Arthur Ortenberg the 87 year old ex husband of Liz Claiborne who passed away yesterday. My bet, she will start her own site and leverage her personal “brand recognition” to develop an independent fashion/lifestyle site of considerable influence. Or, she might quit covering fashion altogether, and create a new platform with a broader social agenda. I always said her writing was really too good for just reporting on the mostly banal subject of fashion.
Then again, maybe a book is in the offering? We hear she is going to write a book about the history of fashion Coverage at the New York Times. I would love to be the fly on the wall when she talks to Bernadine Morris, who was for 30 years the senior fashion writer of The New York Times and the position Cathy took over. What Bernadine thinks of Cathy’s fashi
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Industry Pioneer Arthur Ortenberg Dies
NEW YORK — Arthur Ortenberg, a founder and vice chairman of Liz Claiborne Inc. whose vision guided the phenomenal growth of the company and who later became a wildlife conservation philanthropist, died Monday at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Ortenberg, 87, died of complications of pneumonia and kidney failure, according to his son, Neil.
News of Ortenberg’s illness surfaced last week when his companion, Cathy Horyn, stepped down from her role as chief fashion critic of The New York Times to care for him.
Ortenberg started the sportswear company Liz Claiborne Inc. in 1976 with his late wife, Liz Claiborne. Within 13 years, when they retired, the publicly traded firm was generating $1.41 billion in sales and $164.6 million in net profits and had arguably become one of the biggest success stories in the fashion industry. Ortenberg then turned his attention to wildlife conservation.
Born in Newark in 1926, Ortenberg serve
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Arthur Ortenberg, Liz Claiborne co-founder, dies at 87, report says
NEW YORK — Arthur Ortenberg, who helped build a mode empire with his late wife Liz Claiborne, died on Monday, The New York Times reported today.
He died at the age of 87 from complications of pneumonia, the newspaper said.
Ortenberg was born in Newark on Aug. 13, 1926. His father owned an upholstery shop, while his mom worked as a seamstress, according to the newspaper.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he went to work for Rhea Manufacturing, where he aimed to increase sales of sportswear, the newspaper said.
While there, he recruited Liz Claiborne — who was then Liz Schultz — to design a clothing line for Rhea, the newspaper reported.
“The moment we met, inom knew something important was happening,” he wrote in his memoir, according to The New York Times. “We had an romantisk händelse , or rather, we fell in love.”
After divorcing their spouses, they married each other on July 5, 1957. Almost 50 years la