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Description

1. 4.4 lin. fit. (4 archival boxes, 12 flat boxes)

Summary

1. The Jon Haggins Fashion Archive primarily contains professional papers from Haggins' career as a fashion designer. The bulk of the collection is printed material (articles, advertisements, magazines, press releases and invitations). There is also material pertaining to his singing career and his work in the travel industry.
2. Biographical information can be found in the publicity sketches, press releases, and documents concerning awards and other distinctions he received. Material related to Haggins' fashion career consists primarily of print advertisements featuring clothing he designed. There are also announcements and programs, invitations, business correspondence and a few sketches of his designs. Haggins' entertainment career is documented by promotional material, reviews of his performances, and his entertainment resume. Information about his travel career includes advertisements for tours he conducted and articles he wrote for various magazines.

Subject

1. Haggins, Jon
2. Brown, Helen Gurly
3. African American fashion designers
4. Fashion -- New York (State) -- New York
5. Fashion drawing
6. Fashion shows
7. African Americans -- Clothing
8. African American singers
9. Travel writing

Call number

1. Sc MG 765

Note

1. Photographs and slides transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
2. Videotapes and films transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source (note)

1. Willie Mae Haggins

Biography (note)

1. Fashion designer, singer and travel writer, Jon Haggins was born in Florida in 1943. He opened his own studio shortly after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, and by 1966, only two years out of college, Haggins caused a sensation with his first collection by introducing styles that were radically different from the tailored, constructed clothes fashionable at the time. His career took off; his clothes were carried by the major department stores and featured in prominent fashion magazines. He also designed special collections for textile manufacturing companies. Haggins received several awards for his fashions, however, by 1972 he closed his studio due to lack of funds. He used the opportunity to launch his singing career and formed the group "Hot Stuff." Still designing, in 1975 Haggins created Teeze, Inc., a novelty tee shirt company, and in 1980 he returned full-time to fashion.
2. Haggins is currently a travel writer, and produces a half-hour weekly cable television program "Globetrotter." He is the author of "The African American Travel Guide to Hot, Exotic, and Fun-Filled Places" (2002), and has conducted black heritage tours around the world.

Author

1. Haggins, Jon.

Title

1. Jon Haggins Fashion archive, 1966-2006 (bulk 1966-1990).

Biography

1. Fashion designer, singer and travel writer, Jon Haggins was born in Florida in 1943. He opened his own studio shortly after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, and by 1966, only two years out of college, Haggins caused a sensation with his first collection by introducing styles that were radically different from the tailored, constructed clothes fashionable at the time. His career took off; his clothes were carried by the major department stores and featured in prominent fashion magazines. He also designed special collections for textile manufacturing companies. Haggins received several awards for his fashions, however, by 1972 he closed his studio due to lack of funds. He used the opportunity to launch his singing career and formed the group "Hot Stuff." Still designing, in 1975 Haggins created Teeze, Inc., a novelty tee shirt company, and in 1980 he returned full-time to fashion.
2. Haggins is currently a travel writer, and produces a half-hour weekly cable television program "Globetrotter." He is the author of "The African American Travel Guide to Hot, Exotic, and Fun-Filled Places" (2002), and has conducted black heritage tours around the world.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. Black author.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 765