A private funeral and burial will be held for Joan Kors, who died Friday at her home in Los Angeles.
But her modeling career ended in the early 1960s when Kors decided to become a stay-at-home mother and homemaker. In the equal rights era that followed, Kors worked as an executive assistant in a New York law firm for most of the ’70s. However, she uprooted from the East Coast to the West Coast in 1977 to venture into new terrain — the home textiles industry. There she learned the ins and outs of the business by joining her father, Austin Hamburger, a veteran in that field.
Attendees at Michael Kors’ celebrity-studded fashion shows and events could also count on his mother being a venerable attendee. Whether in New York City or in Paris, during his reign as Celine’s creative director, Joan Kors made the trip to catch every look on the runway and to greet friends in the crowd. The platinum-haired Kors fulfilled that post until she retired in 2009.
“Everything was going smoothly. She brought me to her first fitting for the dress. I was kind of her partner in crime for everything. I sat there and my mom tried the dress on and it was covered with a zillion bows. My grandmother said, ‘That’s magnificent. What a beautiful dress.’ I kind of sat in a corner and was like, ‘It’s not so great.’ My mother said, ‘What’s wrong?’ and I said, ‘I think it’s really busy. It’s too much.’ My grandmother said, ‘Oh, he’s 5. Don’t listen to him. It’s perfect.
Decades later, right before Michael Kors became the biggest initial public offering for a fashion company, Joan Kors played a part. “Just about to ring the bell [at the New York Stock Exchange], I looked down and saw my mother say, ‘Straighten your tie,'” Kors recalled at that time admiringly. “Project Runway” star and Elle magazine’s editor in chief Nina Garcia said via email Monday that Michael Kors “inherited his brilliance and his impeccable sense of style from Joan. She was stylish, chic, warm, caring, witty — and as sharp as could be. An engaging conversationalist who could speak about any subject, Joan was always curious and thoughtful.”
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