Fashion Publicist Eleanor Lambert
In my work on Pittsburgh fashion editor Barbara Cloud, I came across the name of fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert. In an email interview, Cloud remembered about Eleanor Lambert: “She made fashion newsworthy and gave editors access to designers like we never had before.” Thanks to Lambert, Cloud visited the homes of designers. Cloud wrote: “We got good stories and I guess we were courted but I never thought of it like that. I shared all of that with readers. I took them along with me as I covered the scene.” Here are images of Lambert:
Here is the link to her obituary. From the article: “Eleanor Lambert, whose tireless promotion of American fashion gave the industry an international presence and helped to elevate it from rag trade to respectability, died yesterday at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She was 100. Often referred to as the Empress of Seventh Avenue, Miss Lambert looked the part with her trademark turbans and outsize jewelry. Her barrage of news releases and enthusiastic work as a publicity agent did much to further the careers of numerous American designers, among them Norman Norell, Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta and Anne Klein. Lambert, who founded the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1962 and ran it for more than a decade, had an almost unerring eye for recognizing future stars: Halston was one of them.”
I plan to look into Lambert’s relationship with newspaper fashion editors.
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