The past president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America has been designing for over four decades. His career has spanned the complete design spectrum from ready to wear and intimate apparel, to uniforms for America’s most prestigious corporations. A political activist in a community of designers, he has dedicated the last ten years of his presidency to the emergence of American designers in the new global game of fashion. As past president of 7th on Sixth he oversaw the emergence of the tents in Bryant Park as well as playing a major role in fashion’s most successful fund raiser for AIDS; 7th on Sale.

In those four decades he has won 3 Coty awards as the designer of Mr. Mort, a phenomenon of ready to wear in the 60’s and early 70’s. As the first major breakthrough for animal humanity concerns in fashion, the mayor of New York gave him the Central Park Zoo as a showcase for his faux fur collection. He has revived the use of chenille in his loungewear collection for Kellwood, and at this moment is celebrating his 10th year as one of QVC’s major designers by expanding the brand into accessories and a home collection and furthering his reach with a line of books with Random House. His uniform accounts run from FedEx to McDonalds as well as New York’s own jetBlue Airways.