McGee Tag

SALE SET TO GO: Property from the groundbreaking dressmaker Arthur McGee will go under the gavel at Hindman Auctions in mid-March. In 1957, McGee became the primary African American designer to run a Seventh Avenue design studio — Bobbie Brooks — doing so on the age of 24. Largely unheralded during his profession, McGee, who died in 2019, helped pave the way in which for other African American designers like Willi Smith, Stephen Burrows, Scott Barrie, Jeffrey Banks and B. Michael. What distinguished him from others was the multiple platforms he worked on, running his own signature shop, selling his collection to malls and dealing on his own on Seventh Avenue. McGee forged into fashion at a time of great racial...