just beginning, 1972-2000

Inside the Studio

Never employing assistant designers, and working alone in her "secret laboratories," everything marketed under Cashin's name was from her hand alone. As huge licensing deals became the norm in fashion, Cashin turned down lucrative offers for named perfumes and sunglasses. To People magazine, one industry insider marveled at the fact that "she could have been the richest designer in America, but she has always been so bloody uncompromising."

In 1985, after seventy years as a professional designer, Cashin retired from the fashion business to focus on painting and philanthropy. She kept her New York studio intact, for her own experimentation and amusement, until her death in January 2000. Forever fascinated with the creative process, she spent every day expanding and improving upon her last idea.

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