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Ortenberg, 87, died of complications of pneumonia and kidney failure, according to his son, Neil. Ortenberg started the sportswear company Liz Claiborne Inc.

Ortenberg and his non-Jewish wife, fashion designer Liz Claiborne, had each been in the textile and apparel industry for more than 20 years when they decided to go into business together. By the time they retired 14 years later, Liz Claiborne Inc. Ortenberg provided the management know-how, while Claiborne was the creative force. Their target customer was the working woman who wanted moderately priced, well-made, stylish sportswear that could be worn to the office. He was running the junior dress division of a sportswear company and hired her as a designer. They each went through divorces and married in Claiborne moved to Youth Guild, a junior dress manufacturer, as chief designer and Ortenberg became president of Fashion Products Research, a textile and consulting firm.

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Jerome Chazen joined as a partner in We showed them together so a woman would understand how to dress herself.

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He then spent part of his childhood in Indonesia before immigrating to Australia in At fifteen, Hoogenraad went to sea but soon returned to finish his secondary schooling at McLeod High School. During his PhD, Hoogenraad was also a senior demonstrator for agricultural and medical practical classes. Hoogenraad commenced a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Paediatrics at Stanford University in and was appointed to assistant professor in Human Biology in Hoogenraad was given a personal chair in Biochemistry , made head of the Department of Biochemistry and head of the School of Molecular Sciences — a position he still holds. As well as his research and administrative responsibilities, Hoogenraad continues to take an active interest in science education at both a secondary and tertiary level. I was born in The Hague, Holland in February It was the coldest winter on record in an occupied country.

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Her success was built upon stylish yet affordable apparel for career women featuring colorfully tailored separates that could be mixed and matched. Claiborne is best known for co-founding Liz Claiborne Inc. Claiborne was born in Brussels to American parents. She came from a prominent Louisiana family with an ancestor, William C. Claiborne , who served as Louisiana's first governor after statehood , during the War of Timothy's School for Girls , a small boarding school in Maryland. Rather than finishing high school, Claiborne went to Europe to study art in the studios of painters. She also worked for the former Hollywood costume designer-turned-fashion designer, Omar Kiam. Claiborne became frustrated by the failure of the companies that employed her to provide practical clothes for working women, so, with husband Art Ortenberg, Leonard Boxer, and Jerome Chazen, she launched her own design company, Liz Claiborne Inc.

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Their target customer was the working woman who wanted moderately priced, well-made, stylish sportswear that could be worn to the office. Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica. By the time they retired 14 years later, Liz Claiborne Inc. Ortenberg and Claiborne met in , when he hired her to design Joan Miller dresses a division of Rhea Manufacturing. Jerome Chazen joined as a partner in Leeds Jr. Laurence C. According to his son, Ortenberg was an antiwar civil rights activist and had a huge influence on him. He said that for years department stores had only sold apparel in designated departments. The couple was quick to acknowledge that as much as they loved and benefited from the company they started, and enjoyed reminiscing about the early days, its future was entirely out of their hands. Ortenberg became a vice chairman in , together with Jerome Chazen, who had been executive vice president of marketing and who had been with the company since its start. They moved on to assorted textile and apparel firms, and in , they married. The product line expanded to include men's clothing, a more extensive sportswear line, accessories, cosmetics, and fragrances. Another part of the success was the quality of the make and Art was very involved in guiding and shaping the use of Eastern sourcing in order to get well-made products at a very good price.

Ortenberg, 87, died of complications of pneumonia and kidney failure, according to his son, Neil. Ortenberg started the sportswear company Liz Claiborne Inc.

Daniel Abraham. Leeds Jr. Newsletters Sign up for WWD news straight to your inbox every day. He just kind of had that attitude and aptitude. Their target customer was the working woman who wanted moderately priced, well-made, stylish sportswear that could be worn to the office. During her Liz Claiborne days, Buchman said Ortenberg also made a point of having designers sit in on sales meetings so they would know exactly what was selling. We would go to Hong Kong, and people would get out of the way. Claiborne was president and Ortenberg was executive vice president of operations. Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library. Log Out. You are no longer onsite at your organization.