James Galanos
Coty American Fashion Critics award, 1954, 1956 Neiman Marcus award, Dallas, 1954 Filenes Young Talent Design award, Boston, 1958 Cotton Fashion award, 1958 Coty American Hall of Fame award, 1959 Crystal Ball Award from The Fashion Group of Philadelphia, 1963 Drexel Institute of Technology, 1965 Sunday Times International Award, London, 1968 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Golden 44 Award, 1980 FiFi award for Parfums Galanos, New York, 1980 Universita delle Arte Terme Diploma di Merita, Italy, 1981 Council of Fashion Designers of America Lifetime Achievement award, 1985 Stanley Award, 1986
James Galanos was bornSeptember 1924 in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only son of Greekborn parents. His mother, Helen Gorgoliatos, and his father, Gregory Galanos, a frustrated artist, ran a restaurant in southern New Jersey, where Galanos had his first glimpses of welldressed women. He grew up a shy boy and learned to work hard from early age. Galanos remembers that he was a loner, surrounded by three sisters. I never sewed I just sketched. It was simply instinctive. As a young boy I had no fashion influences around me but all the while I was dreaming of Paris and New York. Galanos graduated from Bridgeton High School in Bridgeton, New Jersey in 1942 and went to New York City intending to enroll at a school headed by Barbara Karinska, the great Russian stage designer and costumer. When the school failed to open in the autumn, he enrolled at the Traphagen School of Fashion, one of the first schools of its kind. He attended two semesters at Traphagen, the first spent in general
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