Isaac Mizrahi
Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961 in Brooklyn ) is an American fashion designer .
Life
Mizrahi, who comes from a Jewish family, studied fashion design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City after finishing school . In 1987 Mizrahi showed his first collection in a Bergdorf Goodman store . He then worked for Chanel until he switched to Liz Claiborne in 2008 . In 1991 Mizrahi won the Council of Fashion Designers of America , Womenswear Designer of the Year award.
In the 1990s, Mizrahi appeared on various American television shows. In 1996 he produced the documentary Unzipped , in which he showed the development of his spring 1994 collection. In the spring of 2006, the television show Isaac hosted by him ran on the American television channel Style Network . Another show of his was on the television channel Oxygen . He made short appearances in 1993 in the feature film A Concierge to Fall in Love with and in the television series Sex and the City and Spin City . In 2008 he made a guest appearance in the telenovela Ugly Betty . In 2009 he was a presenter on the television program The Fashion Show on the US television channel BravoTV . Mizrahi lives openly gay in New York City.
Prizes and awards (selection)
- 1991: Council of Fashion Designers of America - Womenswear Designer of the Year
- 2002: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design
Web links
- Isaac Mizrahi at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Newsweek: Mizrahi Unzipped
- New York Daily News: Fashion Week 2010 Final day stars Isaac Mizrahi, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren
Individual evidence
- ^ New York Times: Isaac Mizrahi Leaves Target to Revamp Liz Claiborne
- ^ Wallstreet Journal: Isaac Mizrahi Meets QVC
- ↑ BravoTV: Isaac Mizrahi ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ USAToday: 'Queer Eye' Thom is hot, Kirstie Alley is not
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SURNAME | Mizrahi, Isaac |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American fashion designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |