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As the first of three women to have been president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America in its 60-year history, Mary McFadden remembered that role with fondness and candor.
In 1982, McFadden became the first female president thanks to the publicist Eleanor Lambert, who represented the designer’s business as well as other leading American ones at that time. Asked about how much of a weighing factor that professional connection was,…
