A Refreshing Balance of Intricacy and Refined Simplicity

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You start by turning yarmulkes into doll dresses, then you design a dress made from leather strips and dressmaker hooks and eyes, and before you know it you have a studio in Tribeca and everyone is raving about your work. Perhaps not quite that simple, but this letter Z designer’s career in fashion went from triumph to triumph. In 2001 he launched his own line. He was twenty-one. Two years later he was given The Perry Ellis Award for Womenswear by the CFDA.

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