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 was launched in 1998.
Career
In 1998, with a loan from her father, Zach Lonstein, chief executive officer of Infocrossing, she started a eponymous clothing line, Shoshanna, focusing on "women’s fashions for different body types."<ref name="about">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Forbes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2013, Elizabeth Arden, Inc. named Gruss the brand's first-ever Style Director. In this new role, Gruss served as a spokeswoman and adviser for the design label.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Television
Gruss has appeared in numerous television programs, webcasts, and interviews, including a 2008 episode of America's Next Top Model.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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. <ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="1994-03-28 People">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The minimum legal age of consent to sex in New York was and still is 17. They dated for approximately four years, from 1993 to 1997. During the 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 for the relationship ending.<ref name="BIC">"Shoshanna Lonstein." Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2003. February 10, 2011.Template:Full citation needed</ref>
Lonstein married Josh Gruss on May 10, 2003,<ref name=NYTWedding>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and they had three children.<ref name="about"/> They announced their plan to divorce in November 2014<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and divorced later that year.<ref name=Robbery />
As of 2016, she was living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with their children.<ref name="Robbery">Template:Cite news</ref>
Philanthropy
Gruss is a member of the Board of Trustees of Reform synagogue Temple Emanu-El of New York,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Nightingale-Bamford School where she is also a member of its Alumnae Board Committee.<ref name="leader">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Gruss was Vice Chairman of the associate committee of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and its Children's Committee from 2012 to 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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- 1975 births
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- 20th-century American businesswomen
- 20th-century American women artists
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- 21st-century American businesswomen
- 21st-century American women artists
- American fashion designers
- American philanthropists
- American women fashion designers
- Fashion designers from New York City
- Businesspeople from New York City
- George Washington University alumni
- Jewish fashion designers
- Living people
- Nightingale-Bamford School alumni
- People from the Upper East Side
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni