The Christmas List:
The Stephen Sprouse Book …..by Roger Padilha, Mauricio Padilha
‘Inventive, enigmatic, and supremely creative, Stephen Sprouse made art and clothing that captured the mood of the eighties. One of the first American designers to mix graffiti and a punk aesthetic with fashion, Sprouse manipulated conventional notions of style, and his unique sensibility has inspired designers from John Galliano to Marc Jacobs. Sprouse’s career started in the late seventies, when, after working for Halston, he migrated to a warehouse on the Bowery and started making outfits for his neighbour, Debbie Harry. The fashion world quickly embraced his innovative, culturally relevant sensibility and downtown edge. The Padilhas possess the largest private collection of Sprouse’s work, and were given exclusive access to his archives by his family for this project. They also obtained never-before-published images from photographers such as Steven Meisel, Bob Gruen, and Mert and Marcus. The release of this book coincides with a retrospective at Deitch Projects. The book will be available with four different jackets, each featuring a different Day-Glo colour, an homage to Sprouse’s iconic album cover for Debbie Harry’s Rockbird.’
$47 Amazon.com Publisher: Rizzoli (January 13, 2009)
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