Biography on isaac mizrahi
Influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur Isaac Mizrahi will have his first museum exhibition titled Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History at The Jewish Museum from March 18, to August 7, 2016.
Mizrahi was born in 1961 in Brooklyn. He was raised in a Jewish family, he attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush before transferring to New York City’s High School for the Performing Arts and then Parsons School of Design.
He first started to get involved with the New York fashion scene in the late 1980s and nameskae clothing line debuted at Bergdorf Goodman in 1986.
In 1989, he received the Perry Ellis Award for emerging talent and was named Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) womenswear designer of the year, which he won again in 1991. An insightful documentary about the making of his fall 1994 collection title Unzipped, got Mizrahi and the director, Douglas Keeve, the 1995, Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 1998, Mizrahi’s fashion house closed its doors but the creative mind decided to follow other passions in theater and dance as well as designing costumes and sets.
Today, he stars in Isaac Mizrahi Live!, a call-in home-shopping TV show that airs weekly on the QVC network. He also appears as a judge on Project Runway All Stars.
Beginning with his first ever collection in 1987, and taking us through to his present day work, this exhibition intends to explore Mizrahi’s unique position in the merging of high style and popular culture. While he may be best known for his clothing design, Mizrahi’s creative career has covered over three decades and he has worked not just within fashion but acting, directing, set and costume design, writing, and cabaret performance. Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History combines all the facets of Mizrahi’s work juxtaposing fashion, film, television, and the performing arts.
The show will be curated thematically, exploring key trends in Mizrahi’s work-from the use of color and prints to his witty des Vogue: 25 Celebrity Memoirs That Are Actually Worth Reading "Throughout I.M., this designer's innovation and confidence are evident, contrasting with an industry that, despite its superficial fickleness, can be deeply resistant to change." --The New York Times Book Review "The designer is candid, witty, and endearing in this entertaining account of his journey from eccentric Brooklyn childhood to fashion-world fame." --People Magazine "In I.M., Mizrahi frees himself from the confines of his various personas--designer, performer, 'fashion elf'--in a most engaging way. While there are plenty of LOL moments...there's a lot of warmth in I.M., and a sense of domesticity, too; the yang to the yin of Mizrahi's theatrical sensibility and irrepressible ebullience." --Vogue "Heart-rending...[an] honest rendering of how the underdog Mizrahi, whose self-image and livelihood are alternately crushed and affirmed, moves through the many creative phases of his life." --The Washington Post "I.M. is the must-read that will be in every chic woman's handbag this season." --Popsugar "Honest, insightful, and thoroughly entertaining...Mizrahi comes off in writing just like his onscreen persona: warm, witty, humble--and ready to dish." --Booklist, starred review "Fashion designer Mizrahi reveals the many layers of his exceptional life in this witty, intelligent memoir....In luminous prose, Mizrahi chronicles not only the glamour...but also the low points of his life....This is a must-read for fashion fanatics." --Publishers Weekly "I.M. is as generous a memoir as I can remember. Mizrahi lays bare his struggles with body image, insomnia, and relationships. He meditates on the fickle nature of the fashion industry and spills a little tea on his many celebrity friends. The book is like October 14, 1961 • Brooklyn, New York Fashion designer AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission. Isaac Mizrahi holds the distinction of being one of today's best-known American fashion designers. His fame comes from far more than his runway creations, however: Mizrahi is a bona fide celebrity who has applied his abundant energy to a number of diverse projects. In 1995, early in his career as a designer, he was the subject of a widely praised film documentary titled Unzipped. During 1997 he published a collection of three comic books under the title Isaac Mizrahi Presents the Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel. Two years after the 1998 closing of his high-priced clothing design business, Mizrahi explored his love of theater by crafting and starring in a one-man Off-Broadway cabaret show called Les Mizrahi. The following year he began hosting his own offbeat talk show, fittingly called The Isaac Mizrahi Show, on the cable network Oxygen. During 2004 Mizrahi returned to his fashion-design origins with the launch of two new ventures appealing to very different members of the buying public: an affordable yet fashionable line of clothing for discount retailer Target, and Isaac Mizrahi to Order, a company creating high-end custommade clothing for consumers willing to spend $20,000 on a single dress. Through all of his various projects, Mizrahi has displayed a fun-loving, humorous, and adventurous style, proving that even high fashion need not take itself too seriously. "There is one common philosophy, one thing that you can do no matter who you are or what you look like: You can actually get passionate instead of remaining cool or instead of trying to look like everybody else. You can—you must—immerse yourself passionately in who you are if you want to have style." Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn and raised in Ocea American fashion designer and television presenter (born 1961) Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961) is an American fashion designer, actor, singer, television presenter and chief designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand for Xcel Brands. Based in New York City, he is best known for his eponymous fashion lines. Mizrahi was previously a judge on Project Runway All Stars. In 2022 he played Amos Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago. Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn, the son of Sarah and Zeke Mizrahi, who was a children's clothing manufacturer. He is of Syrian-Jewish descent. His maternal grandparents were Jews from Aleppo, Syria. He grew up as the youngest boy of his family in Midwood, Brooklyn. He bought his first sewing machine at the age of ten with money he had saved from babysitting that summer. At 15, he launched his own label, IS New York, with the help of a family friend. He attended Yeshivah of Flatbush, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and the Parsons School of Design at The New School. Mizrahi presented his first collection in 1987 at a trunk show held by New York department storeBergdorf Goodman. The line immediately earned praise from fashion editors, prompting several top retailers to place orders. In 1989, he discussed his designs in an interview with Elizabeth Cannon. He described them as "controlled and glamorous", "elegant", "distilled, refined", inspired by decadence, and by the diversity of New York City. He also expressed his interest in appealing to a refined and exclusive clientele. In 1992, the French fashion house Chanel bought a stake in the company and began to bankroll its operations. Despite continued critical acclaim, sales were inconsistent; Bloomingdale's executive Kal Ruttenstein stated that Mizrahi h
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