Born: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 24 November 1945; raised in Australia. Education: Trained as an architect, self-taught in fashion design. Career: Window display designer, Melbourne, Australia, 1963-66; fashion illustrator for the Times and Observer, London, 1967-68; theatrical designer, Company of Man performance group, Buffalo, New York, 1968-71; freelance interior and clothing designer, New York, 1971-77; designer, Moss Shamask fashion company, New York, 1978-90; opened Moss on Madison Avenue boutique, New York, 1979, closed, 1986; introduced first menswear collection, 1985; showed new collection under his own name, and formed new company, SUSA (Shamask USA), 1990; signed on with Revlon for cosmetics line, 1993; created costumes for dancer Lucinda Childs, 1994; began designing womenswear again, for Barneys New York, 1995; showed collection in Greenwich Village loft, 1998; has also designed furniture. Exhibitions: Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1982; Infra-Apparel, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993. Awards: American Fashion Critics Coty award, 1981; Council of Fashion Designers of America award, 1987; Confédération Internationale du Lin Fil d'Or award, 1987, 1989; Woolmark Award, 1989. Address: c/o Revlon, 625 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, U.S.A.
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