American Fashion Designer. Muto was a fashion designer who dressed three American first ladies; Lady Bird Johnson, Rosalynn Carter and Barbara Bush. Born into a sewing family, his mother was a seamstress and his grandfather was a tailor. Confined to bed with rheumatic fever as a child, he passed the time sketching. After studying art and design in Chicago, in 1958 he moved to New York, where he quickly became a fixture of the Seventh Avenue fashion trade. He designed for Joan Raines, Saz, Jobère and others, and launched his own labels, Marita by Anthony Muto and A.M./P.M. Muto served as a guest critic at the University of Cincinnati, the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design in New York, the Rhode Island School of Design and elsewhere. His designs are part of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (bio by: Louis M.)