George W. Trippon (February 26, 1916 - January 1, 2010) was a Romanian-American teacher, fashion designer and author known for operating the Trippon Fashion Center design school in Los Angeles during the 1950s[1] and for a long-running TV show "Sew, What's New?"
[2] Trippon was born in 1916 in Aurora, Illinois to parents George and Mary, both Romanian immigrants.
He served in World War II as a Quartermaster, and after discharge, he studied fashion design in Paris and Los Angeles.
[1] In 1956, he was elected president of the Hollywood Beauty League, an organization dedicated to promoting Los Angeles as a cultural hub.
on local television in Los Angeles; in the 1980s the show moved to The Learning Channel and broadcast there until the 1990s.