Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
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Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss (born May 29, 1975) is an American writer and fashion designer and the founder and creative director of the fashion label Shoshanna, which launched in 1998.
Career
In 1998, with a loan from her father, Zach Lonstein, chief executive officer of Infocrossing, she started the eponymous clothing line Shoshanna, focusing on "women’s fashions for different body types."[1][2][3] In 2013, Elizabeth Arden, Inc. named Gruss the brand's first-ever Style Director. In this role, Gruss served as a spokeswoman and adviser for the design label.[4]
Television
Gruss has appeared in numerous television programs, webcasts, and interviews, including a 2008 episode of America's Next Top Model.[5]
Personal life
In 1993, as a 17-year-old high school student, Lonstein met then 39-year-old Jerry Seinfeld in Central Park. Seinfeld was at the time starring in his eponymous sitcom.[6][7] The legal age of consent to sex in New York was and still is 17. They dated for about four years, from 1993 to 1997. During their relationship, she transferred from George Washington University to UCLA, in part to be with Seinfeld; she cited constant press coverage and missing New York City as reasons the relationship ended.[8]
Lonstein married Josh Gruss on May 10, 2003,[9][10] and they had three children.[1] They divorced in 2014.[11][12]
As of 2016, she was living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with their children.[12]
Philanthropy
Gruss is a member of the Board of Trustees of Reform synagogue Temple Emanu-El of New York[13] and the Nightingale-Bamford School, where she is also a member of the Alumnae Board Committee.[14] Gruss was Vice Chairman of the associate committee of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and its Children's Committee from 2012 to 2014.[15]
References
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External links
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- Living people
- Nightingale-Bamford School alumni
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