Tiger Morse

She also worked as a costume designer for John Chamberlain film The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez (1968). Morse lived most of her life in New York City, with a period in London in late life.

• Name — Tiger Morse • Other Names — Joan Marion Sand, Joan Tiger Morse, Joan Morse • Birth Name — Joan Sugarman • Born — April 23, 1931 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Died — 22 April 1972 • Place of death — New York City, U.S. • Occupation — * Fashion designer • businessperson • socialite • costume designer • Movement — Avant-garde • Spouse — William A. Moses (divorced) • Children — 1 • Father — Morris Henry Sugarman • Website — http: www.tigermorse.com/

Joan Sugarman was born on April 23, 1931, in New York City, the daughter of Marcia Sand (née Freedman), and Russian Empire-born architect Morris Henry Sugarman. Her family was Jewish and her parents divorced in 1944. She attended the Lincoln School, and the Cherry Lawn School in Darien, Connecticut. Morse attended Syracuse University and Sorbonne University. She legally changed her name to Joan M. Sand (her mother's maiden name), before her engagement in 1951 to William A. Moses.

Morse was the proprietress of the "A La Carte" starting in 1955, later known as the "Kaleidoscope" starting in 1964. It was located on East 58th Street in Manhattan. She also owned Tiger's Toys and the "Teeny Weeny", a boutique located on Madison Avenue at 73rd Street in New York City. She sold ready-to-wear, and made-to-measure clothing. She also designed shoes and boots. In 1967, Morse was working on designing clothing with kinetics (early electronic clothing) for the "psychedelic collection". Her stores were decorated eccentrically. Amongst her clients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Florence Knoll Bassett, Jean Harvey Vanderbilt, and Twiggy. In her early career Morse was interested in working with saris, kimonos, and textiles from Asia. In 1962, Morse was featured in an eight page spread in Life magazine, with photographs by Mark Shaw, where she was attending to a textile buying trip in multiple locations in Asia. Her work shifted in the early 1960s towards fluorescent colors and more dramatic dress silhouettes; signaling an early change towards counterculture fashion. Her other interests included miniskirts and mini dresses, oversized sunglasses, paper dresses, "little girl dresses" (i.e., babydoll dresses) made with creative fabrics, artificially colored furs, mod fashion, mirrors and mirror balls, "Uncle Sam" themed clothes, and vinyl clothing. Her 1966 fashion show was held in her friend Jan Yoors artist loft in Manhattan, and featured black lights, fluorescent clothing, and a catwalk suspended above the audience; it was attended by Andy Warhol and the Factory, Edie Sedgwick, Halston, and others. Morse was named one of the "fashion revolutionaries" in New York by Women's Wear Daily in 1966, alongside Edie Sedgwick, Baby Jane Holzer, Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, Rudi Gernreich, André Courrèges, Emanuel Ungaro, Yves Saint Laurent, and Mary Quant. In 1967, Morse was working on designing clothing with kinetics (early electronic clothing) for the "psychedelic collection". She was a costume designer for the John Chamberlain film The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez (1968), filmed in Mexico starring Ultra Violet and Taylor Mead.

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On origins, the institutional record states the following. Morse died in 1972 at New York City. It is also recorded that tiger Morse was born in 1931 at New York.