Interiors - January 2008

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shows for free because she “…loved his attitude
to fashion, he was so off the radar. He never
followed trends and stuck to his own vision.”
And, just to remind readers of his status as
l’enfant terrible, the full fashion collections
Sprouse was sketching at age 11 are on view, as
well as the International Herald Tribune article
where he was deemed a “genius” at age 12.
Sprouse’s unwillingness to tailor his ‘out-
there’ ideas to the rigid fashion industry
hindered his commercial success. There is no
doubt, though, that his “trickle-up” take on
fashion—infusing the energy of street culture
into haute couture—has influenced the future
of fashion n Lilibett Snellings~The Stephen
Sprouse Book, by Roger Padilha and Mauricio
Padilha, foreword by Tama Janowitz, 256 pages,
$65/Hardcover, Rizzoli, rizzoliusa.com
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