![]() ![]() ^ a b Caroline Anderson, “Michael Stars co-founder passes away,” Easy Reader, April 9, 2015.^ a b c d e Nora Zelevansky, “Growing the Michael Stars brand beyond T-shirts,” Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2013.In April 2015, the company launched the Artisan Collection, a collaboration with Paula Coles designed to help support local Haitian artisans as well as education in Haiti through Prodev schools. Over the years the brand has also created shirts to benefit organizations such as UNICEF, Hurricane Katrina, and the American Heart Association. Foundation, and Women Thrive Worldwide, among others. The foundation is a regular supporter of numerous philanthropic events and charities, including The Joyful Heart Foundation, We Advance, Children Mending Hearts, Ms. Suzanne Lerner is the current President.Ĭohen and Lerner formed the Michael Stars Foundation in 2005. In March 2015, he died from prostate cancer. In January 2015, after nearly thirty years as President, Michael Cohen stepped down as the head of the company. Today the brand maintains a wide customer range, including celebrities such as Jessica Alba, Sarah Jessica Parker, Olivia Wilde, Maria Bello, Halle Berry, January Jones, Emmy Rossum and Jessica Biel, and is regularly featured in magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Lucky, Elle and InStyle. The company continues to make its entire t-shirt and activewear line in Los Angeles. The brand currently has twelve retail store locations, including its flagship store in West Hollywood. The mobile store first toured New York City before moving to Southern California. In May 2014, the company introduced its Curbside Boutique, a 16-foot truck refurbished as a boutique on wheels. The label is sold at its branded retail stores, department stores, including Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus, and at about a thousand specialty stores across the US. In September 2014, the brand added its first ever men’s line, a collection of 34 basics with “a modern, technical edge.” The collection marks the first time the brand has included menswear since its early days of unisex tees. In July 2013, it launched its first full women’s fashion collection with 160 pieces. Over the next two decades, Michael Stars evolved from a t-shirt company to a luxury lifestyle brand, expanding its line to include more generic fashion staples like dresses, leather and cashmere sweaters. At the time the shirts were sold at upscale retailers such as Barneys, Fred Segal and Harrods. The company gained note from various shows, specifically being featured on Beverly Hills, 90210. The brand is recognized as one of the first to start changing the body of the t-shirt, using fitted shapes, cap-sleeves and various silhouettes. The original designs were boxy and decorated in bright colors and interwoven, French-inspired graphics. In the beginning, Michael Stars focused on unisex, one-size-fits-all t-shirts. Two years later, Cohen and Lerner were married. Cohen approached Lerner about representing the brand, and in 1986, the two of them launched Michael Stars. Cohen was working with contemporary artist John Stars, placing his designs on t-shirts. At the time, Lerner was running Lerner et Cie, a wholesale fashion showroom she founded in 1983. In 1977, he moved to Los Angeles where he would later meet co-founder Suzanne Lerner. The film also stars Bill Irwin, Jeffery Self and Sally Field, with the latter portraying Kit's mother, Marilyn, and Irwin playing the role of Kit's father.Michael Stars Original T-shirts, Mykonos, July 1989Ĭo-founder Michael Cohen began his career in the apparel industry in his native South Africa, where at the age of 21 he founded the import-export fashion agency Bernstein & Cohen. Aldridge is a British actor who currently portrays Thomas Wayne in the comic book adaptation Pennyworth, and has also appeared in Fleabag and the feature film The Long Call. Parsons is, of course, best known for his Emmy-award winning role as Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theoryon CBS, as well as Ryan Murphy's Hollywood and a number of other roles. The couple tragically end up on borrowed time together after Kit's terminal diagnosis, and the film will take audiences through their 14-year journey together, culminating in Kit's tragic death at the age of 41 from neuroendocrine cancer. Based on the best-selling memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Michael Ausiello, the movie stars Jim Parsons as Michael, an entertainment journalist who wants to live out a romantic comedy fantasy lifestyle with Kit, his new beau and a photographer. The first official poster for Spoiler Alert has been released, and the film looks to be an absolute heartbreaker. ![]()
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