At 95, the New York-based designer is still working for QVC and designing uniforms for FedEx, JetBlue and others.
Decades after most people would have called it quits in the working world, Stan Herman is still in the game.
In some ways, Herman’s career trajectory mirrors the evolution of fashion from an elitist, closed-door society into a more democratic, broad-sweeping view. “I’m very much about what has happened in fashion. I never thought about it in those terms,“ he said. “I never wanted to dress the Vogue ladies. I wanted to dress the Mademoiselle and Glamour ladies, who were younger, vibrant and more interested in life.
Mention of any designer pretty much guarantees a story. The book is laced with them, including his monthlong trip to Japan with Rudi Gernreich. “I touched so many people, and I am here to say it. Basically, I should have been dead 10 years ago, but I am still here to talk about these people,” he said. “My life sort of represents the change. I was never called high fashion, but I knew those people. They were my friends.
“As long as fashion makes money, it will exist and feed a lot of mouths for the rest of our lives. It will be relevant. Whether or not people will be as interested in clothing 50 years from today, I can’t predict but I don’t think they will,” Herman said. He has always sketched every evening and he and Horowitz used to read aloud their nightly writings. The tome’s first incarnation didn’t take, so Herman stowed it away. During the pandemic, leafing through Jan Morris’ memoir, written by Morris at the age of 92, Herman decided if Jan could do it, he could do it, too. Settling into his big red leather chair in his Southampton house, Herman put pen to paper, literally.
“As I say in the book, it was called the dress business. We didn’t think of sportswear. That really exploded in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Annie Klein and I used to have scotch three times a week at Bill’s restaurant on 40th Street that all of the designers went to. She was very pioneering and told me she was going to do parts and pieces, tops and bottoms in different sizes that would be coordinated.
Upon arrival in Germany, Herman had not been assigned to any barracks, platoon or battalion. “If you were stationed in Europe, you had to go through the ‘repo depo,’ and three lecture series,” he said. “As a lecturer, I would teach how to love the Germans and hate the Russians because that’s what was going on.”
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