Designer Marilyn Lewis has donated her private collection of Cardinali originals to beneft KCET, public television for Central and Southern California. Marilyn Lewis, restauranteur, fashion designer, and movie producer, has always had a classic sense of style and a gift for knowing “when something seems right.’’ It is this mantra that has made her a successful entrepreneur and designer to celebrities like former First Lady Nancy Reagan and Dyan Cannon. Lewis launched her foray into fashion in 1966 with an initial 35 designs that caught the attention of Vogue’s legendary editor Diana Vreeland. The “Cardinali Look” became iconic when Marlo Thomas wore her designs in the hit TV show That Girl.

ABOUT KCET

KCET, public television for Southern and Central California, is watched by four million viewers a month in 11 counties, the largest broadcast reach of any public television station in the United States. National PBS series produced from the station’s Hollywood studios include four-time NAACP Award winner Tavis Smiley, the educational animated series Sid The Science Kid, co-produced for PBS by KCET and The Jim Henson Company, and the Peabody Award-winning series A Place Of Our Own and Los Niños En Su Casa. KCET also produces the Emmy® Award-winning SoCal Connected, a hard-hitting prime-time weekly television news program that examines the issues and people of Southern California.

Throughout its more than 40-year history, KCET has won hundreds of major awards for its local and regional news and public affairs programming, its national drama and documentary productions, its quality educational family and children’s programs, its outreach and community services, and its Web site, kcet.org. KCET is nonprofit donor-supported community television. Nearly 60 percent of the funds raised to support KCET’s operating budget come from individual support. For additional information about KCET productions, Web-exclusive content, programming schedules and community events, please visit www.kcet.org