1930's Fashion | King, Muriel 1900-1977

FASHION DESIGNER

Classic Designs.

Muriel King preached the importance of designing dresses that looked good the first, second, and third season well before the Depression of the 1930s. Good design, she believed, never went out of fashion. Her philosophy of classic fashion served her well in the 1930s, as consumers who could do so stopped replacing their wardrobes each season and looked for clothes that would look good for years.

Fashion Drawing.

As a girl King dreamed of being an artist. After studying art at the University of Washington she went to New York to study fashion at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. While in school she freelanced as a fashion artist for Women's Wear Daily, Vogue, and various New York department stores, which she continued to do throughout the 1920s, Friends encouraged her to design her own clothes, and in 1932 she began. She was proclaimed the creator of...