Herbert Kasper

After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas.

[3] Kasper's talent was for making inexpensive clothes look "exquisite" and expensive, which endeared him to several other Seventh Avenue manufactures in the 1950s.

[citation needed] He then worked as a dress designer for Penart, Lord & Taylor in New York.

He had an unerring eye, a warm and droll sense of humor, and an insatiable curiosity.” Morgan Library & Museum Director Colin B. Bailey wrote of the collector.

[6] Over a lifetime of designing I've evolved a philosophy that comes from creating clothes for a particular kind of American woman.

Whatever she's doing, running a home, a career, entertaining, mothering, traveling, I deeply believe this woman remains an individual.