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In keeping with their personal beliefs and concerns, Gale and Lida also share Hanky Panky’s good fortunes through donations to various causes as well as philanthropic partnerships with selected retailers.
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Gale Epstein co-founded Hanky Panky and is the creative vision. Gale was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and studied at Washington University and Parsons School of Design. She has created unique clothing and accessories since the age of twelve. A love of natural fabrics and delicate handwork inspired her innovative designs of handkerchief lingerie that spawned Hanky Panky. She is a board member of Glynwood Center in the Hudson Valley and currently serves on the Small Business and Agriculture Advisory Council to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Gale is an accomplished equestrian, a committed environmentalist, animal rights advocate, and a closet harpist.
In keeping with their personal beliefs and concerns, Gale and Lida also share Hanky Panky’s good fortunes through donations to various causes as well as philanthropic partnerships with selected retailers.
Lida co-founded Hanky Panky and runs the day-to-day operations of the company. Lida, who was born in Brooklyn, New York is a graduate of Barnard College and holds a doctorate from Columbia University in Social Psychology. She has a strong interest in the performing arts and sits on the board of a contemporary dance company, Doug Varone and Dancers. Her primary philanthropic interests include education, civil rights and human welfare. She is a board member of the International Organization for Women’s Development and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Lida is a life-long athlete and lapsed cellist, and mom of Hanky Panky’s Chairman of the Board, the standard poodle Henree.
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In keeping with their personal beliefs and concerns, Gale and Lida also share Hanky Panky’s good fortunes through donations to various causes as well as philanthropic partnerships with selected retailers.
Originally from Rochester, Henree grew up in New Jersey before relocating to Manhattan and seeking an entrée into the business world at the precocious age of 2 ½ via her association with Hanky Panky’s CEO, Lida Orzeck.
At first wary of becoming intimately involved, Henree has developed many intense relationships with staff and was granted the title of Chairman of the Board after an attractive portrait of her appeared in the Executive Suite in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary.
Henree plays an important ambassadorial role (and not much else) in keeping with her outgoing personality, and has magnanimously agreed to carry out her duties on a pro bone basis.
