The Fashion Group International is a global, non-profit, professional organization for the fashion industry founded in 1930.
Founding and charter members included Elizabeth Arden, Julia Coburn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helena Rubinstein, Lilly Dache, Edith Head, Mary Brooks Picken, Claire McCardell and Tobé Coller Davis.
The Fashion Group's archives, spanning six decades of the fashion industry, are now housed at the New York Public Library.
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