- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 58 min., 19 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Fashion designer Alvin Bell was born on December 27, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, Bell had a fondness for drawing and fashion. He purchased fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and realized that he wanted to be a fashion designer at an early age. He befriended Willi Smith and was mentored by Margaret Caravera during an advanced course at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. Bell first worked as an illustrator and photojournalist. He attended fashion shows, taking photos of the designs and creating his own sketches, which he successfully sold. Bell later created suits for the P.S.I. fashion label. Bell went on to work for Halston and Anne Klein. He also published his own fashion industry trade newsletter called Designer Report. In February of 1997, Sears Roebuck & Company hired Bell to design and launch a casual and career wear clothing line for women called Mosaic.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Alvin Bell
- Alvin Bell
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 994208852
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Alvin Bell.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
035819
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2005 September 13.
Recorded New York, New York 2007 January 5.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Fashion Designer.
- Added Author
Bell, Alvin, 1958- interviewee.
Wilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.