Eleni Epstein
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New Eleni Epstein image
I just found this new image of Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein at her desk. It is available here. I am working on a revise-and-resubmit about Eleni and her influence on newspaper fashion reporting.
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Eleni Epstein: Revise & Resubmit
Lance & I got great news this week about our article about Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. It was a positive and helpful revise-and-resubmit that we should be able to complete in the next few weeks. Fashion journalism often gets marginalized as unimportant because it is “women’s news.” Yet, as we proved, it is an important business with significant social and political meanings – especially in Washington, DC. We spent several visits going through Eleni’s papers at the University of Missouri in 2006 and 2007. It has taken many years to put her story together. We are so pleased to see her story closer to publication.
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Final edits on Eleni Epstein
We have finished our final edits of our article about Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Estein. She won the first fashion award in the Penney-Missouri Award. Her papers are in the National Women and Media Collection – the only fashion editor in the Collection. The article goes off to a journal for review next week.
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Bonnie Cashin and Eleni Epstein
I just ordered some letters between groundbreaking designed Bonnie Cashin and Penney-Missouri Award winner and Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. Bonnie’s papers are in the Special Collections at UCLA. I discovered the letters after a second review of the finding aid. Eleni’s maiden name is misspelled in the aid. At some point I hope to go through Bonnie’s papers. Bonnie was a designer for Coach purses. The company issued a special edition of Bonnie purses a few years ago. I just won the above bag on eBay – I am curious about her role as a design leader post-World War II. I am curious about the relationship between Bonnie…
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We met Helen Thomas
On our way to Wakulla Springs, we went to a book signing and met Helen Thomas. It was amazing to speak with her. I gave her a copy of my article about Eleni Epstein who Helen mentioned in her autobiography. Helen seemed pleased to get the article and the pictures of Eleni. Helen said that Eleni was one of her best friends! Eleni was the fashion editor of the Washington Star in the 1950s and 1960s.
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We met Helen Thomas
On our way to Wakulla Springs, we went to a book signing and met Helen Thomas. It was amazing to speak with her. I gave her a copy of my article about Eleni Epstein who Helen mentioned in her autobiography. Helen seemed pleased to get the article and the pictures of Eleni. Helen said that Eleni was one of her best friends! Eleni was the fashion editor of the Washington Star in the 1950s and 1960s.
