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...Fashion is a business,” says Chantra, “and at the end of the day, it’s like what Karl Lagerfeld said: ‘I just sell dresses.” While Chantra designs shoes for her label Dru instead of selling dresses, Lagerfeld’s message and sentiment remain relevant...

Author: By Peter B. Weston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Class to Couture | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...designer of his own eponymous menswear label, John Bartlett, he was the celebrated enfant terrible of the 90’s. The Council of Fashion Designers of America’s 1994 New Fashion Talent of the year, and 1997 Menswear designer of the year, his collections of ironic preppy androgyny were absolutely groundbreaking. Of his highly influential and landmark “Noble Savage” collection , he told The New York Times on August 3, 1993 that it was for a man “daydreaming about cashing in his Gucci loafers for a lean-to on Easter...

Author: By Peter B. Weston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Class to Couture | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...recent undergraduate alumni, Elizabeth R. Whitman ’06 of Lewis Albert and Kristen D. O’Neill ’07 of Porter Grey, stand as CEOs of design labels that have risen in considerable prominence in the fashion world—a prominence so extreme that they refused comment to their alma mater’s newspaper. (Because of PR constraints and commitments to other magazines, neither would grant interviews for this article...

Author: By Peter B. Weston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Class to Couture | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...there is much more to the fashion world than shows in Bryant Park tents and mentions in Condé Nast magazines—just two of the accomplishments that Lewis Albert and Porter Grey respectively are making. And in the off-7th-avenue culture of New York, Harvard alums are quietly making a few rumbles...

Author: By Peter B. Weston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Class to Couture | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...year on the production team for the design label Proenza Schouler—a door- opening opportunity for which she can only account for by her “faith in God”—and found that if she wanted to launch a career in the fashion world, she was going to have to do it right. That meant going back to school to study couture, and starting from the ground floor up. But not without a few moments of uncertainty...

Author: By Peter B. Weston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Class to Couture | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

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