SHEILA METZNER / PHOTOGRAPHER / CONTEMPORARY MASTER IN THE WORLD OF FINE ARTS, FASHION, PORTRAITURE, STILL LIFE, AND LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY / MOTHER OF FIVE / MORE ABOUT SHEILA METZNER

PIN UP QUEEN TEE AND KATE KEENE DRESS / 100% CASHMERE / IDENTICAL BACK AND FRONT / GLAMOROUS NECK LINE / DROPPED ARMHOLE / 40'S STYLE EXTENDED CAP SLEEVE / SEXY FIT / TUBULAR TRIMS / HEART SHAPE CUT OUT OF FRONT AND BACK / STRAIGHT FIT / TOTALLY SEAMLESS / HIP LENGTH OR CALF LENGTH / COLORS / JET / STAR / LIPSTICK / ABOUT INSPIRATION

BORN IN BROOKLYN / LIVING AND WORKING IN DUMBO, BROOKLYN / STARTED PHOTOGRAPHY WHILE RAISING HER CHILDREN / HER CAREER TOOK OFF AFTER ONE OF HER PHOTOS WAS INCLUDED IN A FAMOUS AND CONTROVERSIAL EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 'MIRRORS AND WINDOWS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1960' / TODAY HER FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHS ARE FEATURED IN NUMEROUS PRIVATE AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS / THEY INCLUDE THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART / THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY / THE GETTY / SHE HAS PUBLISHED FOUR BOOKS / 'OBJECTS OF DESIRE,' WHICH WON THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHERS ANSEL ADAMS AWARD FOR BOOK PHOTOGRAPHY / 'SHEILA METZNER'S COLOR' / 'INHERIT THE EARTH' LANDSCAPES / 'FORM AND FASHION' IMAGES CULLED FROM TWENTY YEARS OF FINE-ART AND FASHION WORK / HER CLIENTS INCLUDE RALPH LAUREN, BERGDORF GOODMAN, VALENTINO, REVLON, SHISEIDO, NEIMAN MARCUS, VICTORIA'S SECRET / HER EDITORIAL WORK INCLUDES AMERICAN, BRITISH, GERMAN, AND ITALIAN VOGUE, CONDE NAST, TRAVELER, AND HARPER'S BAZAAR

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SHEILA METZNER'S DESIGNS ARE INSPIRED BY KATY KEENE / KATY KEENE WAS A KIND OF '40S MOVIE STAR FOR THE COMICS / BUT HER INTELLIGENCE, WIT, AND BEAUTY ELEVATED HER ABOVE THE STANDARD PRETTY PIN-UP GAL / SHE DEBUTED IN 1945 IN THE BACK OF A COMIC SERIES / BY 1949 SHE HAD HER OWN COMIC / HER TALES IMPACTED THE LIVES OF LITTLE GIRLS GROWING UP IN THE '50S / FROM MODELING GIGS TO MOVIE SHOOTS, FROM JET SETTING EPISODES TO FIGHTING OFF GENTLEMAN SUITORS, SHE ALWAYS REMAINED CALM, COOL, AND DRESSED TO THE NINES / HER COMIC BOOKS SOLD BY THE MILLIONS / HER UNIQUENESS WAS THAT HER GLORIOUS WARDROBE WAS DESIGNED BY HER FANS THEMSELVES / BOYS AND GIRLS, AMONG THEM SHELIA METZNER, SEND IN IDEAS FOR KATY'S CLOTHES, WHICH WOULD BE PUBLISHED GIVING CREDIT TO THE "DESIGNER" / KATY'S FASHION RUN ENDED IN 1961 / SHE HAS HAD A FEW RIVALS SINCE / THIS COLLABORATION IS JUST ONE OF THEM

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