Date: 1900 - 1977

Biography: The American designer Muriel King had an interesting and varied career in fashion, beginning in the 1920s as an illustrator for Bonwit Teller, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Berley Studios, a subscription service that sold drawings of the latest Paris fashions to manufacturers. By the mid-1930s, she worked primarily as a couturière with a private clientele, but also designed ready-to-wear and theatrical costumes for Broadway and Hollywood-most notably for the actresses Katherine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers. Muriel King was recognized by Lord & Taylor as part of their "American Fashion for American Women" campaign in 1932.