Elizabeth Evitz Dickinson

But what they quickly learned was that they, A, at the time didn't have a lot of models for what it looked like to keep someone's name going in a ready-to-wear line in America and have another designer.

But also they just didn't know how to replace her.

She was somewhat irreplaceable.

And so they made the decision to let the line die.

And so because she was first, it also meant that there was no pattern for what you did after a designer died.

But I also think that what I realized in researching this book is we forgot all the names of the women of this era.

This was a movement that was always about more than clothes.

It was really about autonomy and freedom and a capacity to choose how you wanted to live your life.