Fashion and Style
Stephen Burrows | 2012 Spring Collection
“Stephen Burrows is the first African American fashion designer to achieve international acclaim. After graduating from the Fashion Institution of Technology in 1966. Burrows began making clothing for the O Boutique, opposite Max’s Kansas City in New York. Stephen’s window displays literally stopped traffic, and the young designer was soon besieged with orders. With friend Roz Rubenstein, he launched a ready-to-wear collection for Bonwit Teller in 1969. Later that year Joel Schumacher, Henri Bendel’s visual director (now film director), introduced Burrows to Bendel’s legendary fashion”
“On February 13, 2002, “Stephen Burrows World” reopened in Henri Bendel with an event dubbed “the party of the season” by Vogue. The collection has been applauded by the New York Times, the American, French and Japanese editions of Vogue, Essence, and the New York Magazine, among others. Stephen has been welcomed back to fashion with a star on the CFDA’s Fashions Walk of Fame on Seventh Avenue.” —StephenBurrows.com
