"Henry", says designer Mary Alice Orito, "has an intuitive sense of the way a woman moves." This seems to be the prevailing point of view. Two years in a row, in 1976 and 1979, when Henry was just out of high school, the Boston born designer won twice the "America's Next Great Designer" annual award given by the International Ladies Garment workers' Union, and was described by People magazine in 1980 as "Seventh Avenue's latest wunderkind." Also winning "THE RISING STAR" award 1980 from Ashanti Oil Copration's American press week.

Henry has been sketching since he was five, and sewing since he was 13. After apprenticeships with Charles Suppon, Chester Weinberg, and Perry Ellis, Henry attended Harvard University's pre-law and business school, then graduated from Parson's School of Design in 1979. One big mentor for Henry was Mr. Bill Blass who gave guideance to him during some hard career decisions and influenced his opinions for his design career. Oscar de la Renta quickly hired him after being his guest design teacher, and later Valentino in Italy for his skill at designing High End women's wear. Henry left Valentino after. "I knew," he explained, "that if I stayed there I would be designing in a couture vacuum, and not for most women." So, at the age of 21, Henry decided to strike out on his own back in NYC. He called his company Henry Jackson for HNJ, and designed and merchandised high-end women's designer lines from 1980 through 1987 primarily to Henri Bendel, Neiman Marcus, and other top end stores. Several fashion notables including Andre Leon Talley, Vogue Magazine's creative fashion editor, discovered Henry. In 1987 he launched Henry Jackson Inc., and until 1996 designed and managed design teams for such companies as Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, and Bally of Switzerland for women's & men's wear. The period following had Mr. Jackson consulting for companies around the globe for everything from design to business operations for several years. In 2000, after young men's sportswear stints at Converse as an executive, Legends and Heroes, and Stall & Dean Inc. in Boston, Henry again went solo as a design and merchandising consultant in NYC until this new venture presented itself.

As a designer, Henry is particularly excited by his latest venture - a new fashion venture with couture fashion lines for women. The lines or "label" is Henry Jackson Couture. "Our mission," says Henry, "will be to create exciting, innovative styles, to maintain a consistently high standard of workmanship, and to apply a modern fashion sensibility to express the diversity of our customers." This statement also applies to cutting clothes for all body types presently left out by companies like Gucci, and Prada. The Couture operation will be based in PARIS after test marketing within "The Gallery of Wearable Art" on Manhattan's upper east side right next to all the high end designer boutiques. After dressing a large percentage of exteremly wealthy women of all sizes directly via NYC he now feels reassured of the original conviction of his first mentor Bill Blass. Now located in Paris, Henry wants to take advantage of the creative history of the city and express his own style without the "all the same" vibe of NYC. His style is in sum; elegant, classic with a twist, modern, bold.

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