Mary McFadden

Mary Josephine McFadden (born October 1, 1938, New York City) is an American fashion designer and writer.

Family

McFadden is the only daughter of Alexander Bloomfield McFadden, a cotton broker, and her mother was the former Mary Josephine Cutting, a socialite and concert pianist. Her father died in 1948, when he was killed in an avalanche while climbing in the Rocky Mountains. She has two brothers, George, who died in April 2008 after a plane he was in crashed into Toledo Bend Reservoir,Texas, and John McFadden, and two half-brothers, Watson B. and Wolcott R. Blair.

McFadden's stepfather was the investment banker Watson K. Blair who died November 26, 2013

Education

After graduating from Greenvale and Foxcroft, McFadden studied at the École Lubec, 1955–56 and at the Sorbonne, 1956-57. She also studied fashion at the Traphagen School of Design in 1956 and sociology at Columbia University and at the New School for Social Research, New York, 1958-60. She also attended the Dante Alighieri Institute in Rome.