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Edith Flagg (Edith Faierstein) was born on 1 November, 1919 in Vienna, Austria, is an American fashion designer (1919–2014). Discover Edith Flagg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

Popular As Edith Faierstein
Occupation Fashion designer, businesswoman, television personality, philanthropist
Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 1 November 1919
Birthday 1 November
Birthplace Vienna, Austria
Date of death 2014
Died Place Century City, California, US
Nationality Austria

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Who Is Edith Flagg's Husband?

Her husband is Hans Stein (died 1944) Eric Flagg (died 1999)

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Edith Flagg Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Edith Flagg worth at the age of 95 years old? Edith Flagg’s income source is mostly from being a successful fashion designer. She is from Austria. We have estimated Edith Flagg's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

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1919

Edith Flagg (née Faierstein, also known as Feuerstein; November 1, 1919 – August 13, 2014) was an Austrian-born American fashion designer, fashion industry executive, and philanthropist.

She was the first designer to import polyester as a fashion textile to America.

In her later life, Flagg became known for her re-occurring role on the Bravo television program Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles with her grandson Josh Flagg.

Edith Flagg was born Edith Faierstein to a Jewish family on November 1, 1919, in Vienna, Austria.

She was raised in Galați, Romania, where her father worked as a photographer.

At the age of 15 she returned to Vienna to study fashion and lived in Austria through her teenage years.

1938

When Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, she fled to the Netherlands with her boyfriend Hans Stein.

She married Hans Stein after they moved to the Netherlands in 1938.

Instead of leaving the Netherlands after the German invasion, Flagg took the identity of the deceased Lydia Voskuilen.

When she became pregnant with her son Michael, she hid the child in a sanitarium and posed as a nurse in order to visit him.

1944

Hans Stein was captured by Germans and sent to Auschwitz where he was murdered in 1944.

After Stein's death, Flagg worked within the Dutch underground resistance where she met her second husband Erich Simon Flegenheimer (later known as Eric Flagg), and after the war they married.

Together they were responsible for saving several lives.

She acted as a spy, swimming with Nazi soldiers and relaying what she overheard.

Flagg reportedly killed two Nazis.

Eric then moved to the United States and Edith and Michael lived on a kibbutz in Palestine, what would soon become Israel.

Edith and Michael followed Eric to the United States and while Eric worked in New York, Edith and Michael moved to San Francisco and lived with Hans' parents.

1948

Flagg started her career after arriving in New York in 1948 as a seamstress, progressing to design, then later in Los Angeles, California, working in the Garment District.

1949

Edith, Eric and Michael then moved to Los Angeles in 1949.

1956

She began her first line of dresses in 1956 with a $2,000 investment of her own savings.

Her clothing-line "Edith Flagg, Inc."

(1956–2000) manufactured in the United States from the 1950s until her retirement from the fashion industry in 2000.

The brand was characterized by its wrinkle-resistant knitwear.

1960

Flagg found the new fabric while vacationing in Switzerland in the 1960s.

She signed an exclusive advertising contract with DuPont to import Crimplene from England and popularize under the name polyester.

She also imported the synthetic fabric Dacron.

Edith Flagg, Inc. expanded from a successful dress manufacturing company in Los Angeles to an international design house with offices and showrooms in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Charlotte and London, as well as a factory in Hong Kong.

She was an active contributor to California Apparel News and Women's Wear Daily in a weekly column titled "By the Way."

Later, she often appeared on the television show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles to offer business advice to her grandson, Josh Flagg.

When Josh was fourteen, he wrote A Simple Girl: Stories My Grandmother Told Me, a book about her survival during World War II and her career.

2000

Flagg retired in 2000 to concentrate on her philanthropy, focusing on Jewish and medical causes.

She was a donor to the United Jewish Welfare Fund, a Jewish non-profit organization, and the City of Hope, a private hospital in California of which she and her husband were also board members.

Proceeds from her biography A Simple Girl: Stories My Grandmother Told Me were donated to the Jewish Federation.

Flagg and her husband were the recipients of multiple awards from the National Conference of Christians and Jews and The United Jewish Welfare Fund.

2009

The book was published in 2009, prior to the show.

She was a donor to the United Jewish Welfare Fund, a Jewish non-profit organization, and the City of Hope, a private hospital in California.

2012

As of 2012, the company reportedly afforded her a net worth of $100 million.

Flagg was the first person to import polyester to the United States and popularize it.

She discovered a type of polyester called Crimplene which was being produced by Imperial Chemical Industries out of Leeds, England.

The material was used for parachutes and military uniforms during World War II, resulting in a post-war surplus.