Title

Sidney Bernstein interview, 1985 February 5

Contributor Names

Bernstein, Sidney J.

Finger, Mildred (Interviewer)

Date

1985-02-04

Date Digitized

2020

Description

Vice President of the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries Sidney Bernstein discusses his childhood and educational development in New York City. The launch of his successful real estate career put him in proximity to myriad furriers in the city. Eventually this led him to become more and more involved with the fur industry. He discusses the origins of the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries and its work abroad at the Shenkar School in Israel. Bernstein initially became involved with the Fashion Institute of Technology as a real estate advisor. He describes FIT's rising reputation within the fashion industry and how the Institute has become an important asset, particularly for textiles. He briefly discusses scouting physical spaces to facilitate FIT's growth, and then explains how he came to found a scholarship for students there. He talks fondly of Thanksgivings spent with international scholarship recipients at his family home and delves a bit into his personal life. Bernstein then circles back to the fur industry and how, in many ways, it is returning to its roots as a family business. Bernstein was the longest serving member of FIT's Support Foundation. He passed away in 2004.

Type

Moving Image

Oral histories

Sound

Subject

Bernstein, Sidney J.

Jarnow, Dorothy

Guggenheim, Elly

Hankin, Leonard

Haft, Morris

Deitsch, Samuel

Shenkar School

Feldman, Marvin

Bethel, Lawrence L.

Brown, Nat

Bernstein, Alex A.

Meyer, Max

Real estate business

Fur trade

Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries

Fashion

Education

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.)

New York (State)

New York (State)--New York

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000851

SPARC reference code: US.NNFIT.SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.12.7