Vera Maxwell Unstitched

Famous for pioneering sportswear ("The American Look"), Vera Maxwell designed sustainable clothes in the present for the future, blending an Old World charm into each seam. She reigned in mid-century from the 1940s to the 1980s. Her benchmark-style versus fashion-began as a girl in the Bronx where she reinvented hand-me-downs from her sister. It was this tenacity to invent and reinvent that drew people of all walks of life into her fold. As a woman, she became a manufacturing leader for her...