Last Updated: 02 May, 2023 | Views: 735
Age: 74
Profession: Fashion Designer
Famous For: Fashion designer to Win CFDA award as Best Menswear Designer two years
Higher Education: Graduated
About (Profile/Biography):
Joseph Abboudis a writer and male fashion designer from America. Before moving to Roslindale, the Abbouds lived in Boston's South End as a working-class Lebanese Catholic Maronite family.Joseph, Abboud's father, was a candy factory worker, and Lila, his mother, was a seamstress. Nancy Ash, his only sibling, died from breast cancer alongside Lila. Abboud received his degree from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 1972 before enrolling in classes at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Career:
In 1981: He subsequently became menswear design associate director at Ralph Lauren.
In 1987: His own label was launched in the spring.
In 1991: Abboud collaborated with fashion director Peter Speliopoulos.
In 2010: Aboud was named chief creative officer of HMX, which owns Hart Schaffner Marx and Hickey Freeman.
In 2020: The Joseph Abboud brand's trademarks were purchased by WHP Global from Tailored Brands.
Achievements and Awards:
In 1989 & 1990: Abboud has garnered many accolades, and she holds the rare position of being the only designer to win the CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year award twice in a row.
In 1994: Abboud found the The Neckwear Association of America Special Achievement Award to be very significant.
In 1995: He received the American Department of Commerce's Excellence in American Design award.
Unknown Facts:
After regaining ownership of his brand legally in 2013, Abboud launched an online store, constructed a Madison Avenue flagship location, and staged elaborate fashion displays.
He describes the fashion industry from designing and selling clothes to naming colors in his book Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion.
