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She designed simple, sexy dresses that were well-made and well-priced. Laundry by Shelli Segal was a staple in stores such as Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s. Each had their own designer, reporting to Segal. The business expanded with categories such as sportswear, contemporary dresses, social occasion and bridal, knitwear and weekend sportswear.

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Some of Segal’s celebrity customers included Jennifer Lopez, who wore a formfitting Laundry dress in the poster for her movie, “Out of Sight,” as well as TV stars Lea Thompson, Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox and Tea Leoni. It eventually was renamed Laundry by Shelli Segal, and Podell closed the company’s other divisions and transferred all employees over to Segal’s Laundry offices. Laundry was thriving when Segal joined, but her fashion-forward designs propelled the business. She was hired by Laundry’s president at the time, Rea Laccone.

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Her biggest professional success came when she joined Laundry as chief designer in 1992 the brand was a division of Podell Industries. During the Eighties and early Nineties, Segal designed clothing for such firms as Leon Max and La Blanca Sportswear, and had a signature line for JM Studio, a contemporary Los Angeles resource. Segal easily found jobs working in the fashion industry in Southern California. In 1981, when her brother, Robby Benson, became a successful actor, her parents moved once again to Los Angeles (when Robby and his father sold a movie, “One on One,” to Warner Bros.). Segal entered the fashion business in 1974, working for dress designer Ruth Manchester, who is singer Melissa Manchester’s mother, making slinky jersey dresses in synthetic fibers. Her clothes were body-conscious, sexy and simple, and women who were in good shape were drawn to them. She always anticipated the market, and she always seemed to know what was going to happen,” she said.Ĭolleagues described Segal as being one of the hardest-working designers in the industry. Segal said she would dress her daughter in ruffles “and she wanted it very simple.” When she started school, her father would wonder why she didn’t dress like the other six-year-old girls - she would cut up tights and wear one color on one leg and one color on another. “Her little dresser was filled with her own paper dolls and her own clothes that she put on them,” she said. Her mother, Ann Benson Segal, said Segal started drawing when she was a year and a half and was making croakies at two years old. “I suddenly felt a sense of immediacy about things, and since I was interested in fashion, I figured that if I wanted to do it, I should go for it,” Segal told WWD in 1998. Pusha T, Futura, and More Attend the KENZO By Nigo Launch Party

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