Irene-Lentz.com Contributing Authors

I’m so excited to introduce our contributing authors! It’s been a pleasure getting to know these gentlemen, learning about their admiration for Irene, her work and finding out what exciting projects they’re involved with, that eventually brought them to Irene-Lentz.com. From Thomas Gates My interest in Irene started when I was an undergraduate at USC in the early 1960s and worked in the tearoom of Bullock’s Wilshire. There, Irene’s apparel was modeled and she also used the venue to present her seasonal collections. Many decades later, while I was organizing the June F. Mohler Fashion Library for the Rodgers/Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising at Kent State University I recalled her and her stunning fashions from the...