I am revising my article about Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. She held that position from the 1940s until the newspaper went under. I continue to find more material about her. This week I found a 3-part series from 1949 that she wrote. For the series, Eleni went behind the scenes in the New York fashion industry. This photo of Eleni, pictured with Julie Andrews, can be found in her papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. I have gone through her papers several times.

I have found more references about Eleni Epstein. Some of her papers are at the Smithsonsian. I have ordered copies of her work in the Smithsonian’s “Fashion as Culture” program in 1977. I am working on an article about Eleni career as fashion editor at the Washington Star. She won a Penney-Missouri Award in 1960 for her work. This is my earlier post on Eleni. In this photo, she is interviewing Pierre Cardin. The photo is in her papers at the WHMC.

I’m revising an article on Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. She won a Penney-Missouri award for her coverage, which took a business and sociological approach to journalism. This is my earlier post on Eleni. The Paris photo is among her papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. I just came across audio of one of Eleni’s interviews which is also found in her papers at the WHMC. Click below to listen:http://www.archive.org/details/EleniEpsteinInterview

Eleni Epstein was the fashion editor of the Washington Star for more than three decades. She was a native of Washington, D.C. who attended George Washington University and Columbia University. During World War II she began her journalism career as a copy assistant at the Washington Star and was promoted to the position of fashion editor at age 21. Her internationally syndicated articles covered the fashion markets of Milan, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. Her position as fashion editor lasted more than 35 years until 1981 when the Star ceased publication. She received many awards for her interpretive writing and her contributions to the fashion industry. In 1960 she…