Clare Potter

Clare Potter was a fashion designer who was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1903. However, their curator, Richard Martin, who wrote the 1998 book, subsequently spoke about Potter for her 1999 obituary, confirming that the earlier published dates were erroneous.| name=dates| group=dates}} In the 1930s she was one of the first American fashion designers to be promoted as an individual design talent. Working under her elided name Clarepotter, she has been credited as one of the inventors of American sportswear. Based in Manhattan, she continued designing through the 1940s and 1950s. Her clothes were renowned for being elegant, but easy-to-wear and relaxed, and for their distinctive use of colour. She founded a ready-to-wear fashion company in Manhattan named ''Timbertop'' in 1948, and in the 1960s she also established a wholesale company to manufacture fashions. Potter was one of the 17 women gathered together by Edna Woolman Chase, editor-in-chief of ''Vogue'' to form the ''Fashion Group International, Inc.'', in 1928. Provided by Wikipedia
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