American Designer Chester Weinberg-(1930 – 1985) Part I

Chester Weinberg attended Parsons School of Design and graduated in 1951. He returned regularly as a guest lecturer and visiting critic from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was also a professor at The Art Institute of Chicago. Although he was a highly regarded designer throughout the 1960s and the early 1970s, he is mostly remembered for being the first high profile fashion industry member to die of AIDS.

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