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Stacey Bendet Eisner is an American fashion designer who is founder and CEO of the clothing company
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.


Early life and education

Bendet was born in 1978 to Olivia (née Bendet) and Joseph Daniel Wiener. Bendet is of Jewish heritage and had a traditional ''
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'' celebration. Bendet's father ran a textile import business and was "involved in one of the country's leading lace-manufacturing companies", while she herself was interested in fashion and clothing from a young age. Bendet graduated from
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in
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, and studied international relations and French at the
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, graduating in 1999.


Career


Alice + Olivia

In 2002, Bendet founded
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. Bendet proposed a jeans-style cut slim at the hip to create the illusion of elongated legs and a lean silhouette. Designer Lisa Kline noticed her walking by and ordered 20 sets of pairs, which provided an opportunity for Bendet to launch a collection based around that concept at the
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. Soon after, the department store
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placed an order, and Andrew Rosen, developer of the
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fashion line, offered to finance Bendet's new business. In 2018 the company filed a lawsuit against the
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-owned Betsey Johnson label for copyright and trademark infringement. It accused
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of using Bendet's signature face, the "StaceFace," on its bags.


Other ventures

In 2020, she founded and launched Creatively, a networking platform for the creative industry. Also, in 2020, Bendet co-founded an
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campaign called #ShareTheMicNow to bring African-American women's voices to the forefronts of predominately white women's Instagram accounts in an "account takeover" format.


Personal life

She married film producer Eric Eisner, a son of former
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executive
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, on the Caribbean island of
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in 2008. The couple have three children: Eloise Breckenridge Eisner, Scarlet Haven Eisner, and Athena Belle Eisner. Bendet practices
ashtanga vinyasa yoga Ashtanga yoga (not to be confused with Patanjali's '' aṣṭāṅgayoga'', the eight limbs of yoga) is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of medieval ha ...
. Bendet has appeared on the '' Vanity Fair'' Best-Dressed list four years in a row and is in the Best-Dressed Hall of Fame.


References

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