"Color is Everything to Me"Isaac Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn, New York, and got kicked out of school for sketching dresses in his Bible. He studied acting at the High School of Performing Arts and fashion at Parsons School of Design.
In 1987 Mizrahi opened his first clothing business. In 2003 he partnered with Target to produce women’s sportswear and accessories; a home collection was added in 2005. In 2003 Mizrahi also embarked on a couture line for Bergdorf Goodman where this fall he launches a men’s sportswear line. Mizrahi has received three Designer of the Year awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Mizrahi has designed costumes for movies, theatre, dance, and opera, most recently for Scott Elliott’s productions of Barefoot in the Park and The Threepenny Opera. Mizrahi received a 2002 Drama Desk Award for his costume design in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Women.
The subject of the acclaimed 1995 documentary Unzipped, Mizrahi also starred in Les Mizrahi, a one-man off-Broadway show produced by the Drama Department in1999. Last year he wrote and directed four short films collectively titled Supermodelhero which debuted on the Web in April 2005.
From 2001 to 2003 Mizrahi hosted The Isaac Mizrahi Show on the Oxygen Network. Today you can watch him on Isaac, which airs on the Style Network and E!
In 1987 Mizrahi opened his first clothing business. In 2003 he partnered with Target to produce women’s sportswear and accessories; a home collection was added in 2005. In 2003 Mizrahi also embarked on a couture line for Bergdorf Goodman where this fall he launches a men’s sportswear line. Mizrahi has received three Designer of the Year awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Mizrahi has designed costumes for movies, theatre, dance, and opera, most recently for Scott Elliott’s productions of Barefoot in the Park and The Threepenny Opera. Mizrahi received a 2002 Drama Desk Award for his costume design in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Women.
The subject of the acclaimed 1995 documentary Unzipped, Mizrahi also starred in Les Mizrahi, a one-man off-Broadway show produced by the Drama Department in1999. Last year he wrote and directed four short films collectively titled Supermodelhero which debuted on the Web in April 2005.
From 2001 to 2003 Mizrahi hosted The Isaac Mizrahi Show on the Oxygen Network. Today you can watch him on Isaac, which airs on the Style Network and E!
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