Jessica McClintock
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Jessica Gagnon McClintock, founder, President, and CEO of Jessica McClintock, Inc., an American retail company headquartered in San Francisco, California, is based in San Francisco, California.
She was a designer of formal dress gowns.
Jessica converted her company model from designing and operating retail stores to a Jessica McClintock master brand model in 2013, after 43 years in fashion.
Today, she manages the brand's overall direction and execution of her brand through a network of top category licensees.
Early life
On June 19, 1930, McClintock was born in Presque Isle, Maine, as Jessica Gagnon. McClintock's father was a shoe salesman and her mother was a beautician, and she was a nurse growing up in Maine. McClintock's mother told McClintock that she had aspired to create dresses, her mother encouraged McClintock to explore her artistic side. McClintock made a name for herself in fashion quickly, using skills she learned early from her grandmother (artist Verna Hedrick) as she started her career. McClintock attended Boston University from 1947 to 1949.
Personal life and death
McClintock attended Boston University from 1947 to 1949. McClintock married Al Staples, an engineering student at MIT, at the age of 19. McClintock received her Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University in California just shy of her marriage.
Al Staples died in a car crash in 1963. This resulted in a second marriage for airplane pilot Fred McClintock, who was a friend of her husband. In 1967, this union came to an end. Jessica McClintock was a school teacher in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1966–68, and 1968 in Long Island, New York. McClintock and her son Scott escaped to San Francisco, California, after the divorce. McClintock continued her education at Nimitz Elementary School in Sunnyvale, California, 1964–65, 1968–69.
McClintock enjoyed sharing the fashion industry with her niece, Jessica Souza (now Jessica Souza), and her grand niece, Madelyn Souza, who was promoting a career in fashion when McClintock died of natural causes on February 16, 2021, in San Francisco.
Career
Eleanor Bailey, the head of design and production and looking for investors for Gunne Sax Company, a local clothing store, while living in San Francisco, 1969. McClintock bought $5,000 from her savings and became a Bailey associate, solely responsible for the creation and marketing of the new clothing collection in 1970. Bailey resigned, leaving McClintock as the sole owner of Gunne Sax.
McClintock began as a single-line clothing shop and developed it into a multifaceted store that sold bridal, junior, and children's designer clothing. McClintock's main design concern was "romance." Her designs have been exported around the world, including Middle East, Asia, and Europe. Two new clothing collections were launched in 1979: One was to market girls with the Gunne Sax brand, and the other was a secondary contemporary line under McClintock's name/label. Since these two lines became a hit, McClintock was able to open her own grocery stores. In 1981, the first Jessica McClintock store was opened in San Francisco. Jessica's uncle, Scott McClintock, joined the company and designed two clothing lines under the brand of Scott McClintock Dresses and Scott McClintock Sport, which were produced under the brand Scott McClintock Dresses and Scott McClintock Sport. Jessica McClintock renamed Gunne Sax as Jessica McClintock in 1987. She also expanded sleepwear and fragrance lines, as well as her fragrance line. McClintock had opened a total of 41 boutiques with reported annual sales of $100 million, and her dresses were sold in department stores throughout the United States and other nations by the mid-90s. She made her company a family affair with her brother Jack Hedrich as the company's vice president, and Bruce Hutchins, her cousin, in charge of the McClintock boutiques. Jessica Hutchins, her niece, was in charge of the bridal wear line.
In 1988, McClintock introduced her first perfume line. Jessica McClintock was released in the United States and became one of the top-selling fragrances. Jess, her second fragrance, went on sale in 1995. Scott McClintock, McClintock's men's fragrance, was also available exclusively at her boutiques. McClintock launched Jessica McClintock Number 3 in 2001, and Jasmine Kiss, Vintage Vanilla, and Raspberry Romance were three Gunne Sax fragrances launched in the spring of 2003. New Victorian, Gunne Sax, and Jessica McClintock Silk Ribbons, a bridal-inspired fragrance, are among the brand's other scents. McClintock's perfumes are also available online and in stores, including Walgreens, Target, Perfume Euphorium, Perfume Mart, KMart, Macy's, TJ Maxx, FragranceON, Perfume Boulevard, Perfume Boulevard, and www.jMCfragrance.com.
The clothing workers' union Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) organized a campaign in 1993 to bring attention to McClintock's subcontractors' poor labor practices. The AIWA has called for a halt to the MClintock firm. In 1996, the walk came to a halt, as McClintock provided support for workers such as a clothing workers' education fund.