Had his own clothing line under the label "The House of Z" which he ran
out of a boutique under the same name in Pasadena, CA.
He won the Costume Designer's Guild Award for "Best Dressed TV Series"
in 1968, for his work on "Lost In Space", and again in 1970, for his
work on "Land of the Giants.".
At a 1990s UK Irwin Allen convention, someone asked him which Irwin series he enjoyed working on the most, he responded: "Lost In Space, as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was all men and monsters, and some of the men were monsters".