boutiques in America selling her designs. In 1969 she was awarded the Neiman-Marcus Fashion Award; she was, later, the first designer to win the award for a second time. In 1970, Klein opened the first designer shop-in-shop boutique, "Anne Klein Corner" in Saks Fifth Avenue, New York. That year, she was awarded the Coty American Fashion Critics Award, which she would win again. A year later, in 1971, she was named to the Coty Fashion Hall of Fame. The 8th designer to be so inducted in 28 years. 1973 she was included as one of five designers invited to show at the legendary Battle of Versailles design competition. The competition served to raise money for renovations at Versailles. Death March 19, 1974, Anne Klein died at the age of 50 of breast cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY . The Company After Anne Klein died in 1974, Donna Karan and Louis Dell’Olio took over the design direction of the company. Anne Klein is an American privately held company owned by WHP Global who acquired the brand in July 2019. Today the brand sells a full lifestyle assortment from apparel, to footwear to watches to jewelry and is sold in 60 countries worldwide. Awards 1954 – Mademoiselle Merit Award 1955, 1969, 1971 – Coty American Fashion Critics Award 1959, 1969 – Neiman Marcus Award (Klein was the first designer to receive this award twice) 1964 – Lord & Taylor Award 1965 – National Cotton Council Award 1971 – Induction into the Coty Fashion Hall of Fame References External links American Ingenuity: Sportswear 1930s-1970s, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Anne Klein (see index) 1923 births 1974 deaths American fashion designers 20th-century American Jews Deaths from breast cancer Jewish fashion designers People from Brooklyn Traphagen School of Fashion alumni Women inventors 1940s fashion 1950s fashion 1960s fashion 1970s fashion American women fashion designers 20th-century American women 20th-century American people