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Ellen Tracy is a clothing manufacturing company founded by Herbert Gallen in 1949.[1]
The company has three divisions:
Revlon has also produced an Ellen Tracy perfume.[2]
As a result of wartime rations during World War II fabrics became difficult to obtain. However, Herbert Gallen was able to acquire some fabric from a friend. He produced several blouses which he took to major department stores on Manhattan's 34th Street. He sold all of the sample blouses and started a clothing line using his wife's name. Betty Barr, for the label.[3] He opened a showroom on Third Avenue with financial backing from Mike Brewer, Gallen formed a new company in 1949 which he called Ellen Tracy.[3] In 1962, he hired recent college graduate Linda Allard as his design assistant[2] and within two years, she was named Director of Design. The company was acquired in 2002 by Liz Claiborne, Inc. and became a wholly owned subsidiary of that company.[3]
