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Patricia Peterson

January 01, 1970

For the performer, see Patricia Ben Peterson. For the Australian academic, see Patricia Petersen.

Patricia Peterson (b. Patricia Louis, June 6, 1926, Chicago, Illinois) was fashion editor for The New York Times from 1957 to 1977 and Vice President, Advertising, Fashion and Promotion for Henri Bendel, a women's department store in New York City from 1977 to 1989.[3]

Patricia Peterson
Born
Patricia Louis

(1926-06-06)June 6, 1926
Chicago, Illinois
Occupation(s)Fashion Editor, N.Y. Times;[1] Vice President, Henri Bendel[2]
Spouse
Ward (“Tod”) V. Evans Jr.
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(m. 1950; div. 1953)​
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(m. 1954; died 2017)​
Children
  • Jan Peterson
  • Annika Peterson
Relatives

Early career edit

Patricia Peterson began her career in fashion as the fashion editor of the Purple Parrot, the Northwestern University student newspaper, in 1946. After graduating from Northwestern University in June 1948, she worked for Marshall Fields in Chicago in fashion merchandising.[4] In 1950, she moved to New York City and soon after, her friend fashion editor Nonnie Moore suggested Peterson join the staff of Mademoiselle. In 1953, Peterson was listed in the Mademoiselle masthead as a fashion associate under the name Pat Evans.[5] At the time Peterson resigned, she was Mademoiselle’s fashion and merchandise editor.[6]

The New York Times edit

Dorothy (Hawkins) Le Sueur brought Peterson to The New York Times in December 1956 to serve as assistant fashion editor as part of the Food, Fashions, Family, Furnishings section. Peterson was named fashion editor when Hawkins resigned as fashion editor in April 1957. Upon her appointment, Times Talk, The New York Times employee newsletter, announced, “Mrs. Peterson now heads a department of twelve women. She supervises and directs the shooting of the more than 1,000 fashion pictures the department takes each year for the daily and Sunday papers and for special fashion sections. She is responsible, too, for coverage of the wholesale market, retail stores, and all other sources of fashion news.” [7] As fashion editor, Peterson was responsible for reporting on the European fashion collections in France, London, and Italy [8] and covered important designers like Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, and others. Of her meeting with Mlle Chanel in 1958, Peterson wrote:

At 75 years of age she is still a stunning woman whose swift instincts about fashion never have been dimmed or repressed. Her eyes, black as bits of coal, and her long, strong hands are never still. She is a woman whose creativity is directed toward one point of view. Her drive is endless and, because of this, her clothes have spanned two generations and will continue to influence those of the future. This is the essenge of the ageless Chanel.[9]

Patricia Peterson changed the way fashion trends were documented in The New York Times. Instead of using the paper's news photographers, she introduced a wave of top-notch fashion photographers and artists to The New York Times including Diane Arbus, George Barkentin, Cecil Beaton, Guy Bourdin, Gleb Derujinsky, Louis Faurer Hiro (photographer) (Yasuhiro Wakabayashi), Saul Leiter, Duane Michals, James Moore, Tom Palumbo, her husband Gösta Peterson, Francesco Scavullo, Bill Silano, and Melvin Sokolsky. She also frequently used Andy Warhol for illustrations in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[10][11]

Marylin Bender wrote, "Patricia Peterson loved fashion but formed no entangling alliances within the industry. She was one of the first fashion editors to grasp the portent of Courrèges."[12] While at the Times, she frequently argued with Charlotte Curtis, editor of "Women's News." According to an interview, Curtis said, "When are you going to get real clothes for real women, Pat?" Pat replied, "I told her I wasn't here to work as a consumer service, but to show what's happening in fashion, to report news."[13]

Peterson married Gösta “Gus” Peterson in 1954. While at The New York Times, Patricia Peterson and Gösta Peterson frequently collaborated with each other.[14] Their son, Jan Peterson, appeared in several of Peterson's articles about children's fashion.[15][16]

Peterson, with her husband, is responsible for the first major U.S. fashion magazine cover with mixed-race readership to feature an identifiably Black model, Naomi Sims, which was published in the August 27, 1967 edition of Fashions of the Times, The New York Times Magazine.[17] Peterson recruited Andrea “Andy” Skinner from Mademoiselle to work on children's fashions; Skinner and Peterson diversified the race of children photographed in the fashion section.[18] Carrie Donovan and Bernadine Morris worked as fashion reporters during Peterson's tenure as fashion editor.[19]

According to a letter from Diane Arbus to Allan Arbus, in January 1970, Peterson wished to use Arbus's photo of a black girl and a white boy holding hands for the March 15, 1970, cover of the Children's Fashion section of the NY Times Magazine.

The [New York] Times pics were rather lousy and there was a bit of trouble, Pat said it was because the cover photo was of a black girl and a white boy about 4 years old, holding hands. Pat has been incredibly sweet. They wanted a retake which I think she has effectively blocked. . . I am pretty calm about the whole thing. She was full of appreciation for the most minor virtues of the photos. And believe me they were minor. . . and as for the miscegenation, junior style, it may end up being regarded as a major civil rights breakthrough, if they finally let it pass.[20]

The New York Times ultimately featured a photograph of a white girl with her arm draped around a white boy's shoulder instead of the cover Peterson had fought for. The photograph Arbus described of black and white children holding hands does not appear at all.[21]

Peterson was fashion editor during the time that pants were becoming acceptable for women to wear in the United States, and several of The New York Times articles during her tenure debated the wearing of pants.[22]

Peterson's crisp writing found its way into multiple dictionary definitions. In a 1965 article about French designers including Guy Laroche, she wrote, "Hems, cuffs, collars and jackets often dripped with fringe,"[23] which was later used in the definition of the word "drip" in The World Book Dictionary.[24] In 1976, Peterson wrote, "Colors are clean whites, creamy ivories, port. naturals, rich earth tones and crisp brights,"[25] which was later used in the definition of the word "bright" in Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. [26] The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English uses Peterson's quotes in the definitions of "clam diggers" and "unconstructed."[27]

Henri Bendel edit

In 1977, Geraldine Stutz recruited Patricia Peterson to work for Henri Bendel, where Peterson worked as vice president in charge of Advertising, Fashion and Promotion until her retirement in 1989. During her tenure, Peterson invited guest artists, such as Edward Gorey and Candy Pratts, to create Bendel's famous window displays.[28] She and her husband, Gösta Peterson, created a weekly ad campaign for Bendel's that ran as a half-page in The New York Times each Sunday.[29] Of her partnership with her husband on the Bendel's ad campaign, she said, “Gus is very easy to work with, and our roles are clearly defined. I figure out the space with the Times, handle the clothes and styling, and make sure everything gets to the studio with the models. The rest is up to Gus. No one else looks into the camera or directs the models."[30] Peterson retired from Bendel's in 1989.

References edit

  1. ^ Svachula, Amanda (September 20, 2018). "When The Times Kept Female Reporters Upstairs". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  2. ^ Markus, David (December 1983). "Inside Advertising". American Photographer. pp. 128–130.
  3. ^ Markus, David (December 1983). "Inside Advertising". American Photographer. pp. 128–130.
  4. ^ "Times Talk" (Document). The New York Times. May 1957.
  5. ^ "Masthead". Mademoiselle. October 1953.
  6. ^ "Masthead". Mademoiselle. January 1954.
  7. ^ "Times Talk" (Document). The New York Times. May 1957.
  8. ^ Hart, Harold H. (1964). Hart's Guide to New York City. p. 853.
  9. ^ Peterson, Patricia (August 28, 1958). "Paris: The Chanel Look Remains Indestructible Despite Style Fluctuations". The New York Times. p. 30.
  10. ^ Peterson, Patricia (March 3, 1961). "The Chic Women Know Who Silvia Is". The New York Times. p. 30.
  11. ^ Peterson, Patricia (August 25, 1957). "En Route to Fall". The New York Times Magazine Fashions of the Times. pp. 19–79, Section 6, Part 2.
  12. ^ Bender, Marylin (1967). The Beautiful People. Coward-MCCann. p. 87. ASIN B001Q8MM7O.
  13. ^ Lobenthal, Joel (1990). Radical Rags of the 1960s. p. 167. ISBN 0896599302.
  14. ^ Roberts, Sam (August 2, 2017). "Gösta Peterson, Barrier-Breaking Fashion Photographer, Dies at 94". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  15. ^ Peterson, Patricia (March 16, 1969). "Ready for Action". The New York Times Magazine (part 2) Children’s Fashions supplement. pp. 27, 30 & 58.
  16. ^ Peterson, Patricia (August 15, 1965). "The With-It Kids". The New York Times Magazine. pp. 45 & 51.
  17. ^ Roberts, Sam (August 2, 2017). "Gösta Peterson, Barrier-Breaking Fashion Photographer, Dies at 94". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  18. ^ Robertson, Nan (1992). The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times. p. 174. ISBN 039458452X.
  19. ^ Svachula, Amanda (September 20, 2018). "When The Times Kept Female Reporters Upstairs". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  20. ^ Diane Arbus: A Chronology, 1923-1971. Aperture. 2011. ISBN 9781597111799.
  21. ^ Peterson, Patricia (March 15, 1970). "Looking to Summer". The New York Times Magazine, Children’s Fashions supplement.
  22. ^ Voss, Kimberly (2021). "Who's Wearing the Pants? How the New York Times Reported the Changing Dress of Women". Newspaper Fashion Editors in the 1950s and 60s. Springer International Publishing. pp. 1–13. ISBN 3030736237.
  23. ^ Peterson, Patricia (January 30, 1965). "Soft Dress Takes Over Spotlight at Chanel and Cardin Shows". The New York Times. p. 16.
  24. ^ The World Book Dictionary. Field Enterprises Educational Corp. 1974. p. 642.
  25. ^ Peterson, Patricia (February 29, 1976). "The Sexy Season". The New York Times. p. 189.
  26. ^ Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Merriam-Webster, Inc. 2003. p. 155. ISBN 0877798087.
  27. ^ The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English. Harper Collins. 1980. pp. 106 & 486. ISBN 9780060101541.
  28. ^ Dullea, Georgia (June 3, 1978). "Gorey Turns His Talent to Window Shudders". The New York Times. p. 16.
  29. ^ Crocker, Lizzie (September 10, 2014). "Gosta Peterson's Bohemian Rhapsody: Unpacking a Photographer's '60s Secrets". Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  30. ^ Markus, David (December 1983). "Inside Advertising". American Photographer. pp. 128–130.

January 01, 1970
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For the performer see Patricia Ben Peterson For the Australian academic see Patricia Petersen Patricia Peterson b Patricia Louis June 6 1926 Chicago Illinois was fashion editor for The New York Times from 1957 to 1977 and Vice President Advertising Fashion and Promotion for Henri Bendel a women s department store in New York City from 1977 to 1989 3 Patricia PetersonBornPatricia Louis 1926 06 06 June 6 1926Chicago IllinoisOccupation s Fashion Editor N Y Times 1 Vice President Henri Bendel 2 SpouseWard Tod V Evans Jr m 1950 div 1953 wbr Gosta Peterson m 1954 died 2017 wbr ChildrenJan PetersonAnnika PetersonRelativesMelissa Shook cousin Contents 1 Early career 2 The New York Times 3 Henri Bendel 4 ReferencesEarly career editPatricia Peterson began her career in fashion as the fashion editor of the Purple Parrot the Northwestern University student newspaper in 1946 After graduating from Northwestern University in June 1948 she worked for Marshall Fields in Chicago in fashion merchandising 4 In 1950 she moved to New York City and soon after her friend fashion editor Nonnie Moore suggested Peterson join the staff of Mademoiselle In 1953 Peterson was listed in the Mademoiselle masthead as a fashion associate under the name Pat Evans 5 At the time Peterson resigned she was Mademoiselle s fashion and merchandise editor 6 The New York Times editDorothy Hawkins Le Sueur brought Peterson to The New York Times in December 1956 to serve as assistant fashion editor as part of the Food Fashions Family Furnishings section Peterson was named fashion editor when Hawkins resigned as fashion editor in April 1957 Upon her appointment Times Talk The New York Times employee newsletter announced Mrs Peterson now heads a department of twelve women She supervises and directs the shooting of the more than 1 000 fashion pictures the department takes each year for the daily and Sunday papers and for special fashion sections She is responsible too for coverage of the wholesale market retail stores and all other sources of fashion news 7 As fashion editor Peterson was responsible for reporting on the European fashion collections in France London and Italy 8 and covered important designers like Coco Chanel Yves Saint Laurent and others Of her meeting with Mlle Chanel in 1958 Peterson wrote At 75 years of age she is still a stunning woman whose swift instincts about fashion never have been dimmed or repressed Her eyes black as bits of coal and her long strong hands are never still She is a woman whose creativity is directed toward one point of view Her drive is endless and because of this her clothes have spanned two generations and will continue to influence those of the future This is the essenge of the ageless Chanel 9 Patricia Peterson changed the way fashion trends were documented in The New York Times Instead of using the paper s news photographers she introduced a wave of top notch fashion photographers and artists to The New York Times including Diane Arbus George Barkentin Cecil Beaton Guy Bourdin Gleb Derujinsky Louis Faurer Hiro photographer Yasuhiro Wakabayashi Saul Leiter Duane Michals James Moore Tom Palumbo her husband Gosta Peterson Francesco Scavullo Bill Silano and Melvin Sokolsky She also frequently used Andy Warhol for illustrations in the late 1950s and early 1960s 10 11 Marylin Bender wrote Patricia Peterson loved fashion but formed no entangling alliances within the industry She was one of the first fashion editors to grasp the portent of Courreges 12 While at the Times she frequently argued with Charlotte Curtis editor of Women s News According to an interview Curtis said When are you going to get real clothes for real women Pat Pat replied I told her I wasn t here to work as a consumer service but to show what s happening in fashion to report news 13 Peterson married Gosta Gus Peterson in 1954 While at The New York Times Patricia Peterson and Gosta Peterson frequently collaborated with each other 14 Their son Jan Peterson appeared in several of Peterson s articles about children s fashion 15 16 Peterson with her husband is responsible for the first major U S fashion magazine cover with mixed race readership to feature an identifiably Black model Naomi Sims which was published in the August 27 1967 edition of Fashions of the Times The New York Times Magazine 17 Peterson recruited Andrea Andy Skinner from Mademoiselle to work on children s fashions Skinner and Peterson diversified the race of children photographed in the fashion section 18 Carrie Donovan and Bernadine Morris worked as fashion reporters during Peterson s tenure as fashion editor 19 According to a letter from Diane Arbus to Allan Arbus in January 1970 Peterson wished to use Arbus s photo of a black girl and a white boy holding hands for the March 15 1970 cover of the Children s Fashion section of the NY Times Magazine The New York Times pics were rather lousy and there was a bit of trouble Pat said it was because the cover photo was of a black girl and a white boy about 4 years old holding hands Pat has been incredibly sweet They wanted a retake which I think she has effectively blocked I am pretty calm about the whole thing She was full of appreciation for the most minor virtues of the photos And believe me they were minor and as for the miscegenation junior style it may end up being regarded as a major civil rights breakthrough if they finally let it pass 20 The New York Times ultimately featured a photograph of a white girl with her arm draped around a white boy s shoulder instead of the cover Peterson had fought for The photograph Arbus described of black and white children holding hands does not appear at all 21 Peterson was fashion editor during the time that pants were becoming acceptable for women to wear in the United States and several of The New York Times articles during her tenure debated the wearing of pants 22 Peterson s crisp writing found its way into multiple dictionary definitions In a 1965 article about French designers including Guy Laroche she wrote Hems cuffs collars and jackets often dripped with fringe 23 which was later used in the definition of the word drip in The World Book Dictionary 24 In 1976 Peterson wrote Colors are clean whites creamy ivories port naturals rich earth tones and crisp brights 25 which was later used in the definition of the word bright in Merriam Webster s Collegiate Dictionary 26 The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English uses Peterson s quotes in the definitions of clam diggers and unconstructed 27 Henri Bendel editIn 1977 Geraldine Stutz recruited Patricia Peterson to work for Henri Bendel where Peterson worked as vice president in charge of Advertising Fashion and Promotion until her retirement in 1989 During her tenure Peterson invited guest artists such as Edward Gorey and Candy Pratts to create Bendel s famous window displays 28 She and her husband Gosta Peterson created a weekly ad campaign for Bendel s that ran as a half page in The New York Times each Sunday 29 Of her partnership with her husband on the Bendel s ad campaign she said Gus is very easy to work with and our roles are clearly defined I figure out the space with the Times handle the clothes and styling and make sure everything gets to the studio with the models The rest is up to Gus No one else looks into the camera or directs the models 30 Peterson retired from Bendel s in 1989 References edit Svachula Amanda September 20 2018 When The Times Kept Female Reporters Upstairs www nytimes com Retrieved 2023 10 08 Markus David December 1983 Inside Advertising American Photographer pp 128 130 Markus David December 1983 Inside Advertising American Photographer pp 128 130 Times Talk Document The New York Times May 1957 Masthead Mademoiselle October 1953 Masthead Mademoiselle January 1954 Times Talk Document The New York Times May 1957 Hart Harold H 1964 Hart s Guide to New York City p 853 Peterson Patricia August 28 1958 Paris The Chanel Look Remains Indestructible Despite Style Fluctuations The New York Times p 30 Peterson Patricia March 3 1961 The Chic Women Know Who Silvia Is The New York Times p 30 Peterson Patricia August 25 1957 En Route to Fall The New York Times Magazine Fashions of the Times pp 19 79 Section 6 Part 2 Bender Marylin 1967 The Beautiful People Coward MCCann p 87 ASIN B001Q8MM7O Lobenthal Joel 1990 Radical Rags of the 1960s p 167 ISBN 0896599302 Roberts Sam August 2 2017 Gosta Peterson Barrier Breaking Fashion Photographer Dies at 94 www nytimes com Retrieved 2023 10 07 Peterson Patricia March 16 1969 Ready for Action The New York Times Magazine part 2 Children s Fashions supplement pp 27 30 amp 58 Peterson Patricia August 15 1965 The With It Kids The New York Times Magazine pp 45 amp 51 Roberts Sam August 2 2017 Gosta Peterson Barrier Breaking Fashion Photographer Dies at 94 www nytimes com Retrieved 2023 10 07 Robertson Nan 1992 The Girls in the Balcony Women Men and the New York Times p 174 ISBN 039458452X Svachula Amanda September 20 2018 When The Times Kept Female Reporters Upstairs www nytimes com Retrieved 2023 10 08 Diane Arbus A Chronology 1923 1971 Aperture 2011 ISBN 9781597111799 Peterson Patricia March 15 1970 Looking to Summer The New York Times Magazine Children s Fashions supplement Voss Kimberly 2021 Who s Wearing the Pants How the New York Times Reported the Changing Dress of Women Newspaper Fashion Editors in the 1950s and 60s Springer International Publishing pp 1 13 ISBN 3030736237 Peterson Patricia January 30 1965 Soft Dress Takes Over Spotlight at Chanel and Cardin Shows The New York Times p 16 The World Book Dictionary Field Enterprises Educational Corp 1974 p 642 Peterson Patricia February 29 1976 The Sexy Season The New York Times p 189 Merriam Webster s Collegiate Dictionary Merriam Webster Inc 2003 p 155 ISBN 0877798087 The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English Harper Collins 1980 pp 106 amp 486 ISBN 9780060101541 Dullea Georgia June 3 1978 Gorey Turns His Talent to Window Shudders The New York Times p 16 Crocker Lizzie September 10 2014 Gosta Peterson s Bohemian Rhapsody Unpacking a Photographer s 60s Secrets Retrieved 2023 10 08 Markus David December 1983 Inside Advertising American Photographer pp 128 130 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Patricia Peterson amp oldid 1215195490, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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