Barnes

Jhane Barnes (1954) was an american designer. She has adored fashion ever since, when she was very young, her school gave her the task of designing the uniforms for its music band. It was a great success and her teachers encouraged her to enroll at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. While still attending that school, she cut and sewed a pair of pants for a friend who was a model. By chance, in a restaurant, the buyer for a department store saw the model and the pants, and ordered 1,000 pairs. This was the beginning of her adventures. It was 1976. She focused on men’s clothing and accessories. Her specialty was and remains fabric designed in a photo-realism style, transferring from the computer directly to the weft. This allowed her to make original and unique combinations of designs and colors. This technique has contributed to her creativity and allowed her business to expand to furnishings with a line of fabrics for upholstery and carpets.
Her second fabric Collection, in which she experimented with the photo-realism technique, wins two NeoCon awards, a Gold Award for Textiles, and a Most Innovative award. In that same year she also won four Good Design awards from the Museum of Architecture and Design in Chicago for the upholstery she created for Collins & Aikman.
The opening of her fourth shop in Las Vegas, in the Alladin Hotel, selling men’s wear, accessories, carpets and fabric.
Bernhardt asks her to create a line of items for the home. Among the most important pieces in the Collection is an absolutely minimalist cocktail table in steel and aluminium. Her business partner Eddie Di Russo, a reliable tailor and a friend since the beginning of her career, dies.
The launch of Frequency, a new line of men’s casual clothing, and of Oceania, for the carpet division of Collins & Aikman.