Anna Bakst

Liz Claiborne is a fashion portal that designs and markets a wide range of women's and men's apparel, accessories and fragrance products under the Kate Spade New York, Kate Spade Saturday, and Jack Spade labels.Liz Claiborne Inc. was founded in 1976 by Liz Claiborne, Art Ortenberg, Leonard Boxer, and Jerome Chazen. It was animmediate success with sales of $2 million in 1976 and $23 million in 1978. In 1980, Nina McLemore founded Liz Claiborne Accessories. Liz Claiborne Inc. went public in 1981 and had made the Fortune 500 in 1986, ten years after it was founded, with retail sales of $1.2 billion. It was the first company founded by a woman to be listed in the Fortune 500.