Kay Unger is an American fashion designer. Until July 2012, she was the creative head and public face of Phoebe Company LLC and its brands.[1][2]
Biography
Unger was born in Chicago, IL and first studied painting in the Fine Arts Program at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis before switching to design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.[3]
Upon graduation from Parsons in the late 1960s, she worked as one of three apprentices for Geoffrey Beene.[3] After a year, she decided to develop her own line, and, in 1972, along with her two business partners, Howard Bloom and Jon Levy, founded The Gillian Group to produce dinner dresses.[3]