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About Staley/Gretzinger....

Meg wearing "Vintage Grape"

Founded in 1986 by Meg Staley and Jerry Gretzinger, the Staley/Gretzinger company has become a distinctive brand with worldwide presence, carried coast-to-coast and overseas by hundreds of stores.

Jerry and Meg have always had an eye for the offbeat. As a partner in Soho Showroom, Meg helped launch the careers of then unknown designers like Todd Oldham and Anna Sui. Jerry, with a background in archaeology, architecture, and accessories design, brings a wide variety of aesthetic sensibilities to his designs.

Our dedicated and accomplished artisans handcraft all our clothing in our New York City and Hudson Valley workshops.

Under Meg and Jerry's direction, Staley/Gretzinger is a perennial clothing innovator. Their designs are lively and unpredictable, yet their clothes emphasize comfort and wearability.

A Game of Telephone
Shortly after the Oscars, Staley/Gretzinger's midwestern representative called their New York City offices to pass along the rumor that Lynn Redgrave had worn Staley/Gretziner to the Oscars. The owner of a store in Michigan had told her that she saw Lynn Redgrave on television amongst the Oscar revelers in an outfit from Staley/Gretziner's Spring 2001 line. Several phone calls and web searches by Staley/Gretzinger's resourceful national sales manager, Amy Spagnuolo, led her to Lynn Redgrave's website: www.redgrave.com (what else?) On the site was an e-mail address for Ms. Redgrave and of course Amy was compelled to write to her. She responded!! She purchased the outfit at a store in Venice, CA and wore it on Oscar night to a big Film Foundation event at the Beverly Hills Hotel and then, this is the ticklish part, for an appearance on Politically Incorrect. Furthermore, she said she'd love to wear more of Staley/Gretzinger. Stay tuned and keep your eyes You never know what you might find the next time you're flipping through the pages of that magazine at the dentist's office!


	The third Staley/Gretzinger Fashion Show/Luncheon at Northgate at Dockside Restaurant on Saturday, March 31st raised $1,000 in proceeds to donate to the American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Research Division. Happily, the number of people attending the event has increased each year and so has the donation to the Cancer Society. A floral arrangement donated by Robert Millis of Cold Spring Gardens, 3 pairs of Foxglove garden gloves donated by Harriet Zbikowski, and 2 photographs donated by Mary Ann Glass were raffled raising further funds for the Cancer Society. Marilyn Heberling and Kurt Lauer were commentators for the fun theatrical fashion show, this year titled "SG Network Presents GLITZ:, which was a takeoff on T.V. Entertainment Talk Shows. The scenes interviewed the first voted off "Survivor", celebrities that were hot gossip topics, a down and out Rock Bank, owners of Victoria's Spa, a group of peiple that had face lifts together call the enlightened and tightened, gossip editors of the show - all of course wearing spring and summer clothing from the Staley/Gretzinger store. Alexandra Gunn was featured as the new Fashion Designer ofthe season, wearing her original design which she had designed through the Garrison Art Center Mentor Program with Mentor Marilyn Heberling. The models were Kathy Barnes, Clara Marullo, Linda Moore, Anita Shedcris, Kathy Scanlon and a picture of Meg Staley, who was unable to attend, pinned on a mannequin. A highlight of the show was when commentator Marilyn, in the Joan Rivers style, interviewed members of the audience, asking "who were they wearing?" Most of the audience proudly showed off their vintage Staley/Gretzinger clothing, some bought recently, some going back to Janet Farnam's dress purchased in 1985 or Sue Fitzgerald's 7 year old "In Crowd" shirt or Kasey Moss's 3 year old "Autumn Woods" suit. The Staley/Gretzinger store will continue this fun annual event as it is a great time for people to get together for good company, have good food, good laughs for a good cause.