René Hackstetter
← People of the Society · on record 1988–1997
The Society’s records
Everything the Society’s own records say of René Hackstetter: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.
Also recorded as Rene Hackstetter, Renne Hackstetter
Standing
Society Member 1988–1997
Branch
Toronto · recorded holding office in 1989
Certification
- Associate of the CSCL 1990
Elected at the 40th Annual Meeting, 28 April 1990, with his branch given as Toronto.
Made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt. Librarian of the Society in 1991–92, and author of the article on the Brooks factory in the Fall 1993 newsletter.
From Fall 1993; and Fall 1998, page 2.
Served the Society as
- 1st Vice-President 1995–1997
- Librarian 1989–1991
- Toronto Branch President 1989–1990
Awards
- Craftsman Ribbon 1989, 1990
- Salon Ribbon 1990
Demonstrations given
- Picture Frame Workshop 1989
39th AnnualFrom 39th Annual Meeting 1989: programme, Nottawasaga Inn, Alliston.
Where this comes from
- Spring 1989
- Fall 1989
- Winter 1989–90
- Spring 1990
- Summer 1991
- Fall 1991
- Fall 1993
- Fall 1995
- Winter 1995–96
- Spring 1996
- Summer 1996
- Fall 1996
- Spring 1997
- Fall 1998
- 39th Annual Meeting 1989: programme, Nottawasaga Inn, Alliston
- 40th Annual Meeting 1990: programme, Elmhurst Inn, Ingersoll
- Society membership list, 1989
- Society membership list, 1997
Life and work
These lines come from outside sources, named under each.
- In the press
- The Globe and Mail of 30 September 1980 described him as a Toronto designer whose belts could be worn by both men and women.
From Noah James, “That belt becomes high style”, The Globe and Mail, 30 September 1980.
- Chatelaine's summer fashion pages of June 1982 credited a creamy leather belt to Hackstetter's.
From “Summer whites: cool, carefree, uncomplicated”, Chatelaine, Vol. 55 No. 6, June 1982, pp. 60–67.
- The Globe and Mail's fashion columns named him for his belts and ties in 1984, called him a designer of leather goods and an authority on skins in 1994, and in 1995 a designer and bibliophile, a specialist in leather and in the literature of leather.
From David Livingstone, “Fashion”, The Globe and Mail, 10 January 1984; “Style notes”, 21 July 1994; “Fashion”, 15 June 1995.