Vera Maxwell

Vera Maxwell Huppe (b. April 22, 1901, New York - d. January 15, 1995, Rincon, Puerto Rico) is a legendary designer sportswear and fashion, until his retirement in 1985.

She was the first American designer to make materials Ultrasuede. She won the Coty American Fashion Critics' Award in 1953, the Neiman Marcus Award in 1955 and was honored in 1970 with a retrospective exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
Born to Viennese parents, she traveled to Europe with them as a child and lived for a while in Vienna. He attended high school in Leonia, New Jersey and studied ballet in New York, becoming a member of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet from 1919 1924, when she married Raymond J. Maxwell. We divorced in 1937. He married Carlisle H. Johnson, an architect, in 1938 and divorced him in 1945.

Vera Maxwell became known as a designer in 1930 and became famous for its innovative designs. After years of designing for other manufacturers, she founded her own company, Vera Maxwell Originals, in 1947. Its heyday was in 1950. In 1960, his clothes are sold in 700 stores nationwide, but during that decade with its huge disruption reduced its classical style and she decided to lie fallow for a while. "