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'''Dawn Mello''' (Died February 16, 2020) is an American fashion retail executive and consultant and the former fashion director and president of [[Bergdorf Goodman]]. Currently she is the president of her own firm, Dawn Mello & Associates LLC.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web|url=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/fashion/05DIRECTORS.html?pagewanted=all&referrer=|title=The New York Times|publisher=mobile.nytimes.com|accessdate=2015-09-20}}</ref><ref name="bloomberg">{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=28919179&privcapId=518617&previousCapId=518617&previousTitle=Vivre,%2520Inc.|title=Dawn Mello: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek|publisher=bloomberg.com|accessdate=2015-09-20}}</ref> |
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in 1975 Mello was hired by Bergdorf's then chairman [[Ira Neimark]] to become the store's fashion director. It was during this tenure at the store (of which she would later become president) that she is credited with discovering and promoting the talents and designs of [[Michael Kors]].<ref name="bergdorfgoodman">{{cite web|url=http://blog.bergdorfgoodman.com/womens-style/how-michael-kors-was-discovered |title=Women's | 5th at 58th - The Bergdorf Goodman Blog |publisher=blog.bergdorfgoodman.com |accessdate=2015-09-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910165333/http://blog.bergdorfgoodman.com/womens-style/how-michael-kors-was-discovered |archivedate=2015-09-10 }}</ref> In the nineteen eighties she was a mentor to [[Donna Karan]].<ref name="thedailybeast">{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/11/donna-karan-celebrates-25-years-in-fashion.html|title=Donna Karan celebrates 25 years in fashion - The Daily Beast|publisher=thedailybeast.com|accessdate=2015-09-20}}</ref> |
in 1975 Mello was hired by Bergdorf's then chairman [[Ira Neimark]] to become the store's fashion director. It was during this tenure at the store (of which she would later become president) that she is credited with discovering and promoting the talents and designs of [[Michael Kors]].<ref name="bergdorfgoodman">{{cite web|url=http://blog.bergdorfgoodman.com/womens-style/how-michael-kors-was-discovered |title=Women's | 5th at 58th - The Bergdorf Goodman Blog |publisher=blog.bergdorfgoodman.com |accessdate=2015-09-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910165333/http://blog.bergdorfgoodman.com/womens-style/how-michael-kors-was-discovered |archivedate=2015-09-10 }}</ref> In the nineteen eighties she was a mentor to [[Donna Karan]].<ref name="thedailybeast">{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/11/donna-karan-celebrates-25-years-in-fashion.html|title=Donna Karan celebrates 25 years in fashion - The Daily Beast|publisher=thedailybeast.com|accessdate=2015-09-20}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 01:02, 17 February 2020
Dawn Mello (Died February 16, 2020) is an American fashion retail executive and consultant and the former fashion director and president of Bergdorf Goodman. Currently she is the president of her own firm, Dawn Mello & Associates LLC.[1][2]
in 1975 Mello was hired by Bergdorf's then chairman Ira Neimark to become the store's fashion director. It was during this tenure at the store (of which she would later become president) that she is credited with discovering and promoting the talents and designs of Michael Kors.[3] In the nineteen eighties she was a mentor to Donna Karan.[4]
She was hired by Maurizio Gucci to work in his family brand in 1989, and relauch the fashion and luxury image, that Gucci had lost over the past decades. She quits after 3 years and go back to Berddorf Goodman as president of the company.[5]
Mello appears in the 2013 documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's.[6]
References
- ^ "The New York Times". mobile.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ^ "Dawn Mello: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ^ "Women's | 5th at 58th - The Bergdorf Goodman Blog". blog.bergdorfgoodman.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ^ "Donna Karan celebrates 25 years in fashion - The Daily Beast". thedailybeast.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ^ Forden, Sara G. (2012). The House of Gucci : a Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062222671. OCLC 841311813.
- ^ "Review: 'Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's' engages the senses - latimes". articles.latimes.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.