A Fashion Fairytale + A History Lesson: The Bonnie Cashin Archive with Dr Stephanie Lake

How to Be Fabulous with Charlotte Dallison

This week’s guest is Dr. Stephanie Lake. Stephanie is the fifth scholar in the world to earn a Ph.D. in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. Stephanie established herself as a decorative arts curator before opening her gorgeous jewellery design firm, Stephanie Lake Design. Her one of a kind jewellery designs are informed by her work as a curator, archivist and auction specialist. Towards the beginning of her career, while living in Manhattan, Stephanie became part of the four-person team that launched Sotheby’s Fashion Department. Together, with her scholarly work, this led to a friendship with the fashion designer Bonnie Cashin, now known as the "mother" of American sportswear. After forming this friendship Stephanie then went on to curate major retrospectives of Bonnie Cashin’s work in the US and Japan and then published the definitive biography of the designer with Rizzoli New York. Upon Bonnie Cashin’s death, Stephanie became Bonnie’s sole heir. With that she created a multi-million dollar network of philanthropic programs in Bonnie Cashin’s name, and owns Bonnie Cashin’s personal deign archive. The archive is among the most significant single-designer archives in existence today.
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Read my Substack Newsletter, Blonde not Beige Mail, in which I profile Stephanie and share even more about the archive.

Season One of the Chez Charlotte Vintage Podcast was co-produced by Charlotte Dallison of Chez Charlotte Vintage and Shea McKenzie of Jaunty Productions.
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