This talk covers the career of Max Meyer (1876-1953), best known as a labor negotiator and an advocate in favor of education for the fashion industries.  He was one of the founders of the High School of Fashion Industries and the Fashion Institute of Technology.  What interests me most, however, is his earlier career as a buyer for A. Beller and Co., a New York coat and suit manufacturer.  For over thirty years, from 1897 to his retirement in 1929,  Meyer travelled to Paris approximately twice a year to purchase designs to copy. Thousands of sketches, preserved in the Special Collections of the Gladys Marcus Library at FIT, document his purchases from over fifty couture houses. Many of them also record the names of the retailers, including leading New York department stores such as Bergdorf Goodman and Lord & Taylor and New York couturiers, who sold A. Beller’s copies of Paris fashion.  The Max Meyer sketches thus offer a detailed look at how Paris fashion was disseminated in the New York market, which in turn influenced fashion across America. Meyer’s correspondence, and papers relating to his work as a labor mediator and his government service during the Roosevelt administration, are preserved at Cornell’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation.  In 2013, during a sabbatical leave, I examined all of the Max Meyer sketches at FIT and consulted the Kheel Center’s holdings for necessary context.  This talk is a summary of my findings.