She has lived on Park Avenue in Manhattan.[5][when?]
She was working as the director of public relations for Dior New York in the 1960s, when she married a merchant for De Beers diamonds (Philip Harari, who she later divorced; see Personal life section below) and relocated to South Africa.[8][9] From 1968 to 1970 she was an editor for South African Vogue, a job arranged for her by Diana Vreeland.[2]
In 1976 she began the clothing company Mary McFadden Inc.[10]
McFadden has claimed to be married at least eleven times, but declared that some of these marriages were "only spiritual".[9]
McFadden is known to have been married to, in chronological order:
Philip Harari (married 1964, divorced).[8] They were married in Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City, and McFadden's attendants included Warhol star Baby Jane Holzer.[1]
McFadden has a daughter, Justine Harari, from her marriage to Philip Harari.[8][6]
Referencesedit
^ abCharlotte Curtis, "Mary McFadden Married to Philip Harari at St. Bartholomew's; Former Dior Aide is Wed to Director in De Beers Group", The New York Times, 26 September 1964
^ abcJosé Blanco F.; Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst; Heather Vaughan Lee; Mary Doering (23 November 2015). Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe [4 volumes]: American Fashion from Head to Toe. ABC-CLIO. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-1-61069-310-3.
^ abMary McFadden; Murray Gell-Mann (2012). Mary McFadden: A Lifetime of Design, Collecting, and Adventure. Random House Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8478-3656-7.
^"Mary McFadden". LoveToKnow. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
^ abBennetts, Leslie (March 2, 1979). "Mary McFadden: Life of Her Own Design". New York Times. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
^ ab"Mary McFadden Is Married - The New York Times". The New York Times. 1989-06-25. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
^"Traphagen Alumni, The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion". Museum at FIT. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
^ abcdefElizabeth Sleeman (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. Psychology Press. pp. 348–. ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3.
^ abcdefFrancesca Sterlacci; Joanne Arbuckle (30 June 2017). Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 319–. ISBN 978-1-4422-3909-8.
^Francesca Sterlacci; Joanne Arbuckle (26 October 2009). The A to Z of the Fashion Industry. Scarecrow Press. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-0-8108-7046-8.
^ abcd"NMWA Celebrates the work of American Fashion Designer Mary McFadden in Mary McFadden: Goddesses | National Museum of Women in the Arts". Nmwa.org. 2009-08-30. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
^ abSharon G. Hoffman; Amanda M. Mott (2008). Moore College of Art & Design. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-0-7385-5659-8.
^Hyde, Nina S. (1978-05-28). "Fashion Notes". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
^ abHolly Price Alford; Anne Stegemeyer (25 September 2014). Who's Who in Fashion. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 259–. ISBN 978-1-60901-969-3.
^"Moore College of Art & Design – Mary McFadden Receives Visionary Woman 2008". Moore.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
^Fair, Vanity (6 September 2017). "Introducing the International Best-Dressed List 2017 Hall of Fame". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
^"Ireland Calling, MCFADDEN – SCOTTISH SONS OF LITTLE PATRICK". Retrieved May 31, 2018.
^"NOBEL LAUREATE BARUJ BENACERRAF, DESIGNER MARY MCFADDEN, & MASTER CHEF JACQUES PEPIN AMONG ALUMNI TO BE HONORED BY COLUMBIA". Retrieved May 31, 2018.
^New York Media, LLC (26 March 1990). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 40–.