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Stephen Burrows (designer)

December 31, 2022

Stephen Burrows (born September 15, 1943) is an American fashion designer based in New York City.[1][2] Burrows studied at Fashion Institute of Technology, then began work in the New York City's Garment Center, alternately managing his own businesses and working closely with luxury department store Henri Bendel. He is known for being one of the first African-American fashion designers to sell internationally and develop a mainstream, high-fashion clientele.[3] His garments, known for their bright colors and "lettuce hem" curly-edges, became an integral part of the "Fun City" New York City disco-dancing scene of the 1970s.[4]

Stephen Burrows
Born (1943-09-15) September 15, 1943 (age 79)
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
EducationFashion Institute of Technology
OccupationFashion Designer
Years active1966–present

Early life

Burrows was born in Newark, New Jersey on September 15, 1943.[5][6] Born to parents Octavia Pennington and Gerald Burrows,[5] he was raised by his mother, and his maternal grandmother, Beatrice Pennington Banks Simmons. Fascinated with his grandmother's zigzag sewing machine, he learned to sew early.[7] He made his first garment for a friend's doll when he was eight years old.[8]

As a high school student, Burrows took dance lessons and loved the mambo. He began heading to Manhattan on Sundays to dance at the Palladium night club, and began sketching dresses he wanted for his partners. When he graduated from Newark Arts High School, he first enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, intending to be an art teacher.[9]

Inspired by dress forms he came across during a tour of the college,[9] he transferred to New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)[10] where he met a fellow student, Betty Davis, who became his friend and an early muse.[11] He found his studies frustrating, since FIT professors taught a set of basic draping rules that Burrows had no patience with. Even then he had established his spontaneous style of cutting at all angles, stretching edges off grain, and draping as he went.[8] Nonetheless, he graduated in 1966.[12]

Fashion career

 
Stephen Burrows top & skirt, Fall/ Winter 1971. Adnan Ege Kutay Collection

Burrows began his working career with a job at blouse manufacturer, Weber Originals.[10] Gradually his work was picked up by small shops, and in 1968 he began working with Andy Warhol and his entourage at Max's Kansas City and selling across the street at the O Boutique.[13][14] Burrows' clothes were described as the fashion embodiment of the electric sexuality of this era. The women who wore his clothes gave off an aura of frantically creative days and wild nights filled with disco music and glamorous people.[15]

As a former student of FIT, there was a desire amongst his classmates to sell their lines at the famous Fifth Avenue retailer Henri Bendel.[16] Burrows himself was introduced to Geraldine Stutz, Bendel's owner, in the summer of 1968.[16] She loved the coat he wore to meet her so much that she gave him a boutique in the store.[17] In fall of 1973, Burrows' first lingerie/sleepwear collection, called "Stevies" was introduced at Henri Bendel's, Bonwit Teller, Lord & Taylor, and Bloomingdales, as well as stores in Chicago, San Francisco, and elsewhere.[18]

Burrows was one of the five American fashion designers chosen to showcase their work at the historical fashion show billed as divertissement à Vèrsailles, held on November 28, 1973.[19] This event has come to be known as The Battle of Versailles Fashion Show. He was the youngest of the American designers to show a collection at the show by more than a decade.[20]

In 1978, Farrah Fawcett wore his gold chainmail dress to the Academy Awards where she was a presenter.[21] In February 1981, Brooke Shields, at age 15, appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine wearing Stephen Burrows. Other women who loved his clothes included Barbra Streisand, Cher, The Supremes, Bette Midler, and Jerry Hall.[22]

In May 2006, the Council of Fashion Designers of America honored Burrows with "The Board of Directors Special Tribute."[23] Around the same time, Burrows was invited by the Chambre Syndicale de la Mode to return to Paris to present his Spring/Summer 2007 Collection in the Carousel de Louvre.[24] In addition to "Stephen Burrows World",[25] Burrows expanded his company to include a number of labels drawn from various points of inspiration. "S by Burrows" was created for a venture with Home Shopping Europe (HSN) in Munich, Germany,[26] while "Everyday Girl" was inspired by Anna Cleveland, daughter to muse and model Pat Cleveland, and "SB73", a cut and sew knit line that was developed based on Burrows' hallmark, color-blocked creations of the seventies.[26]

First Lady Michelle Obama wore a Burrows Jersey pantsuit to an event in Washington, D.C. of which Vogue Magazine wrote, "It was a wonderful acknowledgement of Burrows, one of the great African-American designers and a Harlem resident known for his inventive cuts and bias technique."[26]

Awards

  • Coty Award, American Fashion Critics award ("Winnie"), 1973[10]
  • Coty Award, American Fashion Critics special award (lingerie), 1974
  • Coty Award, American Fashion Critics award ("Winnie"), 1977
  • Council of American Fashion Critics award, 1975
  • Knitted Textile Association Crystal Ball award, 1975
  • Bronze plaque on the Fashion Walk of Fame, 2002
  • Council of Fashion Designers of America Board of Directors' Special Tribute Award, 2006[20]
  • Key to the City of Newark, New Jersey, 2016[27] and many more ig

Retrospectives and tributes

Burrows’ work as a fashion designer has been the subject of a series of retrospectives: in "1940–1970's Cut and Style" at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology;[when?] "The 1970s" at The Tribute Gallery in New York,[when?] and in "Back to Black: Art, Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary" at Whitechapel Gallery in London in June 2005.[28]

In 2013, the Museum of the City of New York mounted the first major examination of Burrows' work in "Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced" with an accompanying catalog.[3][29][30]

References

  1. ^ Zalopany, Chelsea (May 19, 2014). "André Leon Talley Honors Stephen Burrows at SCAD". Vogue. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Stephen Burrows – Fashion Designer Encyclopedia – clothing, century, women, dress, style, new, body, dresses, designs, jewelry, world, look". fashionencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  3. ^ a b Wilson, Eric (2013-02-20). "Don't Forget About Stephen". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  4. ^ Bellafante, Ginia (2002-01-01). "A Fallen Star of the 70's Is Back in the Business". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  5. ^ a b "Stephen Burrows's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  6. ^ "Newark native, iconic fashion designer Stephen Burrows receives key to city". NJTV News. 2018-02-16. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  7. ^ Burrows, Stephen; Morera, Daniela; Museum of the City of New York (2013-01-01). Stephen Burrows: when fashion danced. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York. p. 16. ISBN 9780847841189. OCLC 826811098.
  8. ^ a b Company, Johnson Publishing (1980-11-01). Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company.
  9. ^ a b Burrows, Stephen; Morera, Daniela; Museum of the City of New York (2013-01-01). Stephen Burrows: when fashion danced. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York. pp. 16–18. ISBN 9780847841189. OCLC 826811098.
  10. ^ a b c "Stephan Burrows Receives "Oscar" of Fashion Awards". Jet. Jet, Johnson Publishing Company: 55. 1976. ISSN 0021-5996.
  11. ^ Mahon, Maureen (2020). Black diamond queens : African American women and rock and roll. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-1019-7. OCLC 1141516276.
  12. ^ Bryd, Ayana (2007-09-01). "Stephan Burrows". Ebony. Ebony, Johnson Publishing Company: 94. ISSN 0012-9011.
  13. ^ Burrows, Stephen; Morera, Daniela; Museum of the City of New York (2013-01-01). Stephen Burrows: when fashion danced. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York. p. 10. ISBN 9780847841189. OCLC 826811098.
  14. ^ Billard, Mary (2010-07-21). "Stephen Burrows Collection at Target". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  15. ^ Burrows, Stephen; Morera, Daniela; Museum of the City of New York (2013-01-01). Stephen Burrows: when fashion danced. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York. pp. 36, 37. ISBN 9780847841189. OCLC 826811098.
  16. ^ a b Wilson, Eric (2009-05-13). "Henri Bendel Will No Longer Sell Clothes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  17. ^ BELLAFANTE, GINIA (Jan 1, 2002). "A Fallen Star of the 70's is Back in the Business". New York Times. p. 1.
  18. ^ BERNADINE MORRIS (Jul 16, 1973). "Pajamas to Wear when Going Out". New York Times. p. 24.
  19. ^ Nemy, Enid (30 November 1973). "Fashion at Versailles: French Were Good, Americans Were Great". New York Times: 26.
  20. ^ a b Jablon-Roberts, Sara. "Stephen Burrows." Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: The United States and Canada. Ed. Phyllis G. Tortora. Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. Bloomsbury Fashion Central. Web. 21 Feb. 2020. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781847888525.EDch031717>.
  21. ^ Burrows, Stephen; Morera, Daniela; Museum of the City of New York (2013-01-01). Stephen Burrows: when fashion danced. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York. pp. 148, 149. ISBN 9780847841189. OCLC 826811098.
  22. ^ Burrows, Stephen; Morera, Daniela; Museum of the City of New York (2013-01-01). Stephen Burrows: when fashion danced. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York. p. 16. ISBN 9780847841189. OCLC 826811098.
  23. ^ "Fashion Icon Stephen Burrows Honored by Council of Fashion Designers of America". NewsMark Public Relations. 2011-12-07. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  24. ^ Donofrio-Ferrezza, Lisa; Hefferen, Marilyn (2017-02-09). Designing a Knitwear Collection: From Inspiration to Finished Garments. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-5013-1382-0.
  25. ^ "1943-Present – Stephen Burrows | Fashion History Timeline". fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  26. ^ a b c "Stephen Burrows first African-American designer". Fashionsizzle. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  27. ^ "Newark native, iconic fashion designer Stephen Burrows receives key to city". NJ Spotlight News. 2018-02-16. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  28. ^ Powell, Richard J.; Bailey, David A.; Straw, Petrine Archer (2005). Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary. Whitechapel Art Gallery. ISBN 978-0-85488-142-0.
  29. ^ "Stephen Burrows". Museum of the City of New York. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  30. ^ "Stephen Burrows "When Fashion Danced"". YouTube. April 17, 2013.

Further reading

  • Givhan, Robin, ‘’The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History’’, New York, 2015.
  • Morris, Bernadine, and Barbara Walz, The Fashion Makers, New York, 1978.
  • Milbank, Caroline Rennolds, New York Fashion: The Evolution of American Style, New York, 1989.
  • Stegemeyer, Anne, Who's Who in Fashion, Third Edition, New York, 1996.

External links

  • Official site

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Stephen Burrows born September 15 1943 is an American fashion designer based in New York City 1 2 Burrows studied at Fashion Institute of Technology then began work in the New York City s Garment Center alternately managing his own businesses and working closely with luxury department store Henri Bendel He is known for being one of the first African American fashion designers to sell internationally and develop a mainstream high fashion clientele 3 His garments known for their bright colors and lettuce hem curly edges became an integral part of the Fun City New York City disco dancing scene of the 1970s 4 Stephen BurrowsBorn 1943 09 15 September 15 1943 age 79 Newark New Jersey U S EducationFashion Institute of TechnologyOccupationFashion DesignerYears active1966 present Contents 1 Early life 2 Fashion career 3 Awards 4 Retrospectives and tributes 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksEarly life EditBurrows was born in Newark New Jersey on September 15 1943 5 6 Born to parents Octavia Pennington and Gerald Burrows 5 he was raised by his mother and his maternal grandmother Beatrice Pennington Banks Simmons Fascinated with his grandmother s zigzag sewing machine he learned to sew early 7 He made his first garment for a friend s doll when he was eight years old 8 As a high school student Burrows took dance lessons and loved the mambo He began heading to Manhattan on Sundays to dance at the Palladium night club and began sketching dresses he wanted for his partners When he graduated from Newark Arts High School he first enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art intending to be an art teacher 9 Inspired by dress forms he came across during a tour of the college 9 he transferred to New York City s Fashion Institute of Technology FIT 10 where he met a fellow student Betty Davis who became his friend and an early muse 11 He found his studies frustrating since FIT professors taught a set of basic draping rules that Burrows had no patience with Even then he had established his spontaneous style of cutting at all angles stretching edges off grain and draping as he went 8 Nonetheless he graduated in 1966 12 Fashion career Edit Stephen Burrows top amp skirt Fall Winter 1971 Adnan Ege Kutay Collection Burrows began his working career with a job at blouse manufacturer Weber Originals 10 Gradually his work was picked up by small shops and in 1968 he began working with Andy Warhol and his entourage at Max s Kansas City and selling across the street at the O Boutique 13 14 Burrows clothes were described as the fashion embodiment of the electric sexuality of this era The women who wore his clothes gave off an aura of frantically creative days and wild nights filled with disco music and glamorous people 15 As a former student of FIT there was a desire amongst his classmates to sell their lines at the famous Fifth Avenue retailer Henri Bendel 16 Burrows himself was introduced to Geraldine Stutz Bendel s owner in the summer of 1968 16 She loved the coat he wore to meet her so much that she gave him a boutique in the store 17 In fall of 1973 Burrows first lingerie sleepwear collection called Stevies was introduced at Henri Bendel s Bonwit Teller Lord amp Taylor and Bloomingdales as well as stores in Chicago San Francisco and elsewhere 18 Burrows was one of the five American fashion designers chosen to showcase their work at the historical fashion show billed as divertissement a Versailles held on November 28 1973 19 This event has come to be known as The Battle of Versailles Fashion Show He was the youngest of the American designers to show a collection at the show by more than a decade 20 In 1978 Farrah Fawcett wore his gold chainmail dress to the Academy Awards where she was a presenter 21 In February 1981 Brooke Shields at age 15 appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine wearing Stephen Burrows Other women who loved his clothes included Barbra Streisand Cher The Supremes Bette Midler and Jerry Hall 22 In May 2006 the Council of Fashion Designers of America honored Burrows with The Board of Directors Special Tribute 23 Around the same time Burrows was invited by the Chambre Syndicale de la Mode to return to Paris to present his Spring Summer 2007 Collection in the Carousel de Louvre 24 In addition to Stephen Burrows World 25 Burrows expanded his company to include a number of labels drawn from various points of inspiration S by Burrows was created for a venture with Home Shopping Europe HSN in Munich Germany 26 while Everyday Girl was inspired by Anna Cleveland daughter to muse and model Pat Cleveland and SB73 a cut and sew knit line that was developed based on Burrows hallmark color blocked creations of the seventies 26 First Lady Michelle Obama wore a Burrows Jersey pantsuit to an event in Washington D C of which Vogue Magazine wrote It was a wonderful acknowledgement of Burrows one of the great African American designers and a Harlem resident known for his inventive cuts and bias technique 26 Awards EditCoty Award American Fashion Critics award Winnie 1973 10 Coty Award American Fashion Critics special award lingerie 1974 Coty Award American Fashion Critics award Winnie 1977 Council of American Fashion Critics award 1975 Knitted Textile Association Crystal Ball award 1975 Bronze plaque on the Fashion Walk of Fame 2002 Council of Fashion Designers of America Board of Directors Special Tribute Award 2006 20 Key to the City of Newark New Jersey 2016 27 and many more igRetrospectives and tributes EditBurrows work as a fashion designer has been the subject of a series of retrospectives in 1940 1970 s Cut and Style at New York s Fashion Institute of Technology when The 1970s at The Tribute Gallery in New York when and in Back to Black Art Cinema and the Racial Imaginary at Whitechapel Gallery in London in June 2005 28 In 2013 the Museum of the City of New York mounted the first major examination of Burrows work in Stephen Burrows When Fashion Danced with an accompanying catalog 3 29 30 References Edit Zalopany Chelsea May 19 2014 Andre Leon Talley Honors Stephen Burrows at SCAD Vogue Retrieved 4 December 2015 Stephen Burrows Fashion Designer Encyclopedia clothing century women dress style new body dresses designs jewelry world look fashionencyclopedia com Retrieved 25 March 2015 a b Wilson Eric 2013 02 20 Don t Forget About Stephen The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 12 05 Bellafante Ginia 2002 01 01 A Fallen Star of the 70 s Is Back in the Business The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 12 05 a b Stephen Burrows s Biography The HistoryMakers Retrieved 2019 12 05 Newark native iconic fashion designer Stephen Burrows receives key to city NJTV News 2018 02 16 Retrieved 2019 12 05 Burrows Stephen Morera Daniela Museum of the City of New York 2013 01 01 Stephen Burrows when fashion danced New York Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York p 16 ISBN 9780847841189 OCLC 826811098 a b Company Johnson Publishing 1980 11 01 Ebony Johnson Publishing Company a b Burrows Stephen Morera Daniela Museum of the City of New York 2013 01 01 Stephen Burrows when fashion danced New York Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York pp 16 18 ISBN 9780847841189 OCLC 826811098 a b c Stephan Burrows Receives Oscar of Fashion Awards Jet Jet Johnson Publishing Company 55 1976 ISSN 0021 5996 Mahon Maureen 2020 Black diamond queens African American women and rock and roll Durham ISBN 978 1 4780 1019 7 OCLC 1141516276 Bryd Ayana 2007 09 01 Stephan Burrows Ebony Ebony Johnson Publishing Company 94 ISSN 0012 9011 Burrows Stephen Morera Daniela Museum of the City of New York 2013 01 01 Stephen Burrows when fashion danced New York Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York p 10 ISBN 9780847841189 OCLC 826811098 Billard Mary 2010 07 21 Stephen Burrows Collection at Target The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 12 05 Burrows Stephen Morera Daniela Museum of the City of New York 2013 01 01 Stephen Burrows when fashion danced New York Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York pp 36 37 ISBN 9780847841189 OCLC 826811098 a b Wilson Eric 2009 05 13 Henri Bendel Will No Longer Sell Clothes The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 12 05 BELLAFANTE GINIA Jan 1 2002 A Fallen Star of the 70 s is Back in the Business New York Times p 1 BERNADINE MORRIS Jul 16 1973 Pajamas to Wear when Going Out New York Times p 24 Nemy Enid 30 November 1973 Fashion at Versailles French Were Good Americans Were Great New York Times 26 a b Jablon Roberts Sara Stephen Burrows Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion The United States and Canada Ed Phyllis G Tortora Oxford Bloomsbury Academic 2010 Bloomsbury Fashion Central Web 21 Feb 2020 lt http dx doi org 10 5040 9781847888525 EDch031717 gt Burrows Stephen Morera Daniela Museum of the City of New York 2013 01 01 Stephen Burrows when fashion danced New York Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York pp 148 149 ISBN 9780847841189 OCLC 826811098 Burrows Stephen Morera Daniela Museum of the City of New York 2013 01 01 Stephen Burrows when fashion danced New York Skira Rizzoli in association with Museum of the City of New York p 16 ISBN 9780847841189 OCLC 826811098 Fashion Icon Stephen Burrows Honored by Council of Fashion Designers of America NewsMark Public Relations 2011 12 07 Retrieved 2020 10 02 Donofrio Ferrezza Lisa Hefferen Marilyn 2017 02 09 Designing a Knitwear Collection From Inspiration to Finished Garments Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN 978 1 5013 1382 0 1943 Present Stephen Burrows Fashion History Timeline fashionhistory fitnyc edu Retrieved 2020 10 02 a b c Stephen Burrows first African American designer Fashionsizzle Retrieved 2020 10 02 Newark native iconic fashion designer Stephen Burrows receives key to city NJ Spotlight News 2018 02 16 Retrieved 2021 05 27 Powell Richard J Bailey David A Straw Petrine Archer 2005 Back to Black Art Cinema and the Racial Imaginary Whitechapel Art Gallery ISBN 978 0 85488 142 0 Stephen Burrows Museum of the City of New York Retrieved 2019 12 05 Stephen Burrows When Fashion Danced YouTube April 17 2013 Further reading EditGivhan Robin The Battle of Versailles The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History New York 2015 Morris Bernadine and Barbara Walz The Fashion Makers New York 1978 Milbank Caroline Rennolds New York Fashion The Evolution of American Style New York 1989 Stegemeyer Anne Who s Who in Fashion Third Edition New York 1996 External links EditOfficial site Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Stephen Burrows designer amp oldid 1102504891, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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