NEW YORK, NY (Aug. 1, 2024)
Three-time Coty Award-winning designer Stan Herman and renowned stage and film actor/director Tamara Tunie will co-host the 2024 Femmy Gala, the intimate apparel industry’s premier event, on Tuesday, August 6, at Cipriani 42nd St. in New York City.
The Femmy Gala is the fundraising vehicle that enables the Underfashion Club to support its extensive Scholarship, Awards, Internship and Grants (SAIG) programs. These efforts bring to life the Underfashion Club’s credo of “Education today for a better industry tomorrow.”
The Underfashion Club is the premier non-profit organization supporting the intimate apparel industry. The mission of the Underfashion Club is to ensure the future of the intimate apparel business through education and cultivating and retaining talent. The club has developed partnerships at both the high school and college levels to provide financial support for students who are interested in pursuing a career in intimate apparel.
Stan Herman, 95, has had a long and storied career in the apparel industry, including 16 years as president of Council of Fashion Designers of America, a long career as a Seventh Avenue designer starting with the Mr. Mort Label, and with Henri Bendel’s boutique fashion. Herman is a leading uniform designer with such corporate partners as TWA, McDonald’s, United Airlines, US Airways, Loews Hotels, The TWA Hotel, the Sandals resorts and JetBlue since its founding.
He has been a part of the intimate apparel community since 1965, where he has worked with brands such as Van Raolte, Swank, Youthcraft/Charmfit, Slumber Togs, Kellwood, Carole Hochman and Komar. He has been selling his line of loungewear on QVC for over 31 years and continues to participate on boards that form the direction for the fashion industry and the neighborhood it encompasses including Bryant Park and The Garment District for over 40 years.
Tamara Tunie has a distinguished body of work that encompasses stage, television and film, including just last year in the role of Cissy Houston, mother of the great American icon Whitney Houston, in “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” and won the “Best Director Award” from the New York Theatre Festival, 2023, for helming the new musical, “Dorothy Dandridge: the Musical.”
Her film roles have included roles in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” with Michael Douglas; Harold Becker’s “City Hall” with Al Pacino; Taylor Hackford’s “Devil’s Advocate” with Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron, and Robert Zemeckis’ “Flight” with Denzel Washington, with whom she also starred on Broadway as “Calpurnia” in “Julius Caesar.”
Tunie’s award-winning stage works include the World Premiere of “American Son,” an Obie-Award winning turn as “Marvelous” in Danai Gurira’s “Familiar” and most recently she starred in the world premiere of “Bernarda’s Daughters.”
Her directing credits include the premiere of “Feelin’ Good!” and she produced and directed the feature film “See You In September,” and “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep” and directed and co-wrote the world premiere of “Jazzland” at The Harlem School of the Arts, and is directing a new musical in development, titled “Marian,” about the life of the world-changing opera diva, Marian Anderson.
Tunie first gained an international following in the role of medical examiner Dr. Melinda Warner in 23 seasons on Dick Wolf’s legendary NBC series “Law And Order: SVU.”
She is a Founder of Black Theatre United, Chair Emerita of the Board of Directors of Figure Skating in Harlem and serves on the Board of Directors at Harlem Stage/The Gatehouse and City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, Pa.
For more information on the Underfashion Club, go to https://underfashionclub.org/. For more information on the Femmy Gala, go to: https://underfashionclub.org/event/2024-femmy-gala/
DANIEL QUINTANILLA
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