Born 1886 as Henrietta Kanengeiser in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Hattie Carnegie was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1950s. By her early 20s, she had taken the surname Carnegie as an homage to Andrew Carnegie, the richest person in the United States at the time.
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| Fashion designs by Hattie Carnegie in the 1940s |
Hattie Carnegie designs are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and at the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, Florida. An exhibit of the dresses shown at the boutique of Hattie Carnegie was mounted at the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1996. The exhibit, Hattie Carnegie: American Style Defined, was curated by Professor Rose Simon.
Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
By the time of her death, Carnegie had established an $8 million business. She died in 1956, aged 69. These glamorous photos captured portraits of classic beauties wearing fashion designs by Hattie Carnegie in the 1940s.
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| Bobby Munroe in a one-shoulder dress by Hattie Carnegie, jewelry by Marvella, photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe in Havana, Cuba, Harper's Bazaar, February 1941 |
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| Model in gray-blue Shetland tweed suit accented with rust vest, cuffs and hat by Hattie Carnegie, photo by John Rawlings, Vogue, September 1, 1943 |
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| Selene Mahri in gray tweed suit holding a platinum fox coat, both by Hattie Carnegie, photo by John Rawlings, Vogue, September 1, 1944 |
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| Georgia Carroll in evening dress of mat satin crêpe woven with Enka rayon, a Hattie Carnegie Original, Harper's Bazaar, November 1945 |
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| Lauren Bacall (wearing a silk evening gown for the Summer by Hattie Carnegie and ring by Cartier, Paris) photographed by John Engstead in New York, American Vogue, May 1945 |
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| Lisa Fonssagrives in tweed waistcoat suit by Hattie Carnegie at Harzfeld's, Harper's Bazaar, September 1945 |
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| Model in Hockanum wool suit with longer jacket that flares stiffly over a tight neat skirt, buttoned close with big discs of pearls and brilliants by Hattie Carnegie, photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Harper's Bazaar, October 1945 |
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| Model is wearing a tan crocheted casque by Hattie Carnegie, photo by Erwin Blumenfeld, Vogue, 1945 |
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| Dorothy Tivis in black lace skirt and blue satin with black lace jacket by Hattie Carnegie, photo by Horst P. Horst, 1946 |
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| Elise Daniels is wearing chocolate brown Forstmann wool curve-button suit with nutria lined hood from Hattie Carnegie, photo by John Rawlings, Vogue, September 1, 1946 |
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| Lily Carlson, Sunburst jewelry by Trifari, gown by Hattie Carnegie, photo by John Rawlings, Vogue, June 1, 1946 |
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| Model in beautiful gown by Hattie Carnegie made for Neiman Marcus, Harper's Bazaar, October 1946 |
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| Model in sheer sequinned midnight blue evening dress by Hattie Carnegie, photo by John Rawlings, 1946 |
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| Model in short straight coat and dress in navy-blue and red Botany flannel, linen-scarf hat by Hattie Carnegie, jewelry by Seaman Schepps, photo by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, February 15, 1946 |
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| Natalie Paine in blue spruce jacket of thick tweed and Highland Fling skirt by Bruno for Hattie Carnegie, Kodachrome by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Harper's Bazaar, October 1946 |
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| Carmen Dell' Orefice in lace dress by Hattie Carnegie, photo by Horst P. Horst, 1947 |
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| Dorian Leigh in gleaming, pure silk shantung dress and jacket with jewel-shaped bands of rhinestones by Hattie Carnegie, photo by irving Penn, Vogue, March 1, 1947 |
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| Lily Carlson in round-hipped, small-waisted dinner suit in a thin blue wool and blue satin bowed hat, both by Hattie Carnegie, photo by Horst P. Horst, Harper's Bazaar, October 1947 |
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| Model in bewitching neon violet, sleek and shimmering gown by Hattie Carnegie for Hudson's, Detroit, Kodachrome by John Rawlings, Harper's Bazaar, September 1947 |
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| Model in pretty pink embroidered linen day-into-dinner dress and jacket by Hattie Carnegie, photo by Irving Penn, Vogue, March 1, 1947 |
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| Model is wearing suit and hat by Hattie Carnegie, photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe for Harper's Bazaar, March 1947 |
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| Evelyn Tripp in apricot silk and wool suit, with padded jacket, full skirt and shawl collar, by Hattie Carnegie, jewelry by Jean Schlumberger, photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Harper's Bazaar, March 1948 |
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| Ricki VanDusen in beautiful pink satin gown made to order at Hattie Carnegie, rhinestone teardrop necklace at Bergdorf Goodman, photo by Frances McLaughlin, Vogue, November 15, 1948 |
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| Evelyn Tripp in Hattie Carnegie, photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe for Harper's Bazaar, March 1949 |
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| Lisa Fonssagrives in an Oxford flannel coat by Hattie Carnegie, photo by Norman Parkinson, Park Avenue, New York City, 1949 |
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| Mary Jane Russell in a darkly striped silk taffeta dress by Hattie Carnegie, the bag and bracelets are by Cartier, Kodachrome by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Harper's Bazaar, March 1949 |
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| Model in copper colored moiré dinner/theater dress by Herbert Sondheim, muff and hat by Hattie Carnegie, jewelry by Van Cleef & Arpels, Kodachrome by Genevieve Naylor, Harper's Bazaar, October 1949 |
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| Model in creamy white net and satin gown with bodice folded over like a cuff by David Klein, Hattie Carnegie muff, necklace by Accessocraft, photo by Lillian Bassman, Harper's Bazaar, November 1949 |
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