Robert Fairchild

An avid outdoorsman and wine expert, Fairchild worked for the company in the Sixties and Seventies in various capacities. When he was a college student at the University of Pennsylvania in the early Sixties, he joined the family business as a summer intern at Menswear, then a monthly fashion trade magazine. Fairchild bought a 50 percent stake in The House of Burgundy Inc., a New York importing firm, where Fairchild served as president and chief executive officer until his death. In 1994, he purchased the Maison Prosper Maufoux, whose wines House of Burgundy had been importing since 1947. Fairchild worked as a foreign correspondent in the company’s Paris bureau between 1966 and 1968, later in radio for then-parent company Capital Cities Inc., and later returned to Menswear, according to then-Menswear editor Mort Gordon. Fairchild Fashion Group is now owned by Condé Nast. Fairchild is survived by his four daughters, Stephanie Griswold, Suzie Kovner, Samantha Storkerson and Serena Sheldon, and six grandchildren.