William Ralph Blass, he is very well known in the name of Bill Bless, as American Fashion Designer in 1922 to 2002 in women's fashion that focused on relax and comfort.
He was born on June 22, 1922 at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had one sister her name is Virginia Mae. Blass was the only son of Ralph Aldrich Blass who was determined suicide when he was five years old, and his mom is Ethyl Easter Blass who died in 1952.
Blass started wrote his book when he was in the high school until he was fifteen years old. He began selling his book for collecting some money to move to The Manhattan city. Two years later, Blass attended to school once he was seventeen years old at Parsons School of Design in New York City. He had a very good talent in Design field. Thus, he was the first male that won Mademoiselle's Design for Living award. During the World War II, he served more than three years in the U.S. Army. After he came out from U.S. Army in 1949, he started design when the fashion world were its "unglamorous years" by inspired from the fashion that time. He brought the cocktail dresses back which was long lost style that made his design is pleased to the celebrity women. After that, he turns into a design assistant at Anna Miller. He became the head fashion designer in 1959 after Anna Miller merged with the company her brother had created, Maurice Rentner Ltd, in 1962 and he moved to be a vice-president of Maurice Rentner. Eight years later, the company’s name was changed to Bill Blass Limited. At that time he was a main US fashion designer and he was a desire of many women in fashion design industrial, so his works became well known in New York city. In between 1950s and 1960s, he created another product line in design of popular sportswear, evening wear and accessories. Even though it was a menswear lines, it was another accomplished in his design field. The first collection was instantly successful because of his thought that " Men were going into Bonwit's...
