Stacey Bendet
Stacey Bendet | |
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| File:Stacey Bendett 223.jpg Bendet in 2023 | |
| Born | Stacey Bendet Weiner |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA) |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Family | Michael Eisner (father-in-law) Breck Eisner (brother-in-law) |
Stacey Bendet Eisner is an American fashion designer who is founder and CEO of the clothing company Alice + Olivia.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Bendet was born in 1978 to Olivia (née Bendet) and Joseph Daniel Wiener.[1][2][3] Bendet is of Jewish heritage[4] and had a traditional bat mitzvah celebration.[5] Bendet's father ran a textile import business[6] and was "involved in one of the country's leading lace-manufacturing companies",[7] while she herself was interested in fashion and clothing from a young age.[6][8] Bendet graduated from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York,[3] and studied international relations and French at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1999.[9][10][11]
Career
[edit | edit source]Alice + Olivia
[edit | edit source]In 2002, Bendet founded Alice + Olivia.[12] Bendet proposed a jeans-style cut slim at the hip to create the illusion of elongated legs and a lean silhouette.[13] Designer Lisa Kline noticed her walking by and ordered 20 sets of pairs,[6] which provided an opportunity for Bendet to launch a collection based around that concept at the Russian Tea Room.[13] Soon after, the department store Barneys New York placed an order, and Andrew Rosen, developer of the Theory fashion line, offered to finance Bendet's new business.[6]
In 2018 the company filed a lawsuit against the Steve Madden-owned Betsey Johnson label for copyright and trademark infringement. It accused Betsey Johnson of using Bendet's signature face, the "StaceFace," on its bags.[14][15]
Other ventures
[edit | edit source]In 2020, she founded and launched Creatively, a networking platform for the creative industry.[16][17]
Also, in 2020, Bendet co-founded an Instagram campaign called #ShareTheMicNow[18] to bring African-American women's voices to the forefronts of predominately white women's Instagram accounts in an "account takeover" format.[19]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]She married film producer Eric Eisner, a son of former Walt Disney Company executive Michael Eisner, on the Caribbean island of Anguilla in 2008.[6] The couple have three children: Eloise Breckenridge Eisner,[20] Scarlet Haven Eisner,[21] and Athena Belle Eisner.[22]
Bendet practices ashtanga vinyasa yoga.[23][24]
Bendet has appeared on the Vanity Fair Best-Dressed list four years in a row and is in the Best-Dressed Hall of Fame.[25][26]
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- Living people
- American women fashion designers
- American fashion designers
- 20th-century American Jews
- 20th-century births
- Jewish fashion designers
- Schools of the Sacred Heart alumni
- University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- People from Chappaqua, New York
- Horace Greeley High School alumni
- 21st-century American Jews
- 20th-century American women artists
- 21st-century American women