Narciso rodriguez fun facts

Want to know what happens behind-the-scenes at New York Fashion Week runway shows? Just look online. But you want to know what went on behind the camera during the Bryant Park years (1994-2010)? There’s only one place to get it: Eila Mell’s book New York Fashion Week: The Designers, the Models, the Fashions of the Bryant Park Era. From fun facts to fashion rundowns to photos worth more than a thousand words, this book gives us all an inside look into a world of style that became a legacy. We sat down with the author to get her perspective on this year’s shows and all the industry itself.

What are you doing now for NYFW?
This week is an especially crazy week. I’m covering all the shows for FashionWatch.com, and in the meantime I’m working on a new book which will be out in September that is also related to the fashion industry.

Why did you become a fashion journalist? What was your path to getting where you are now?
I’ve had a really crazy career, I started out as an actor and I was unhappy doing that. I decided that I had a passion for writing but wasn’t exactly sure of what my focus was. My first book Casting Might Have Beens was about the film industry. After eight years of research and persistence it was finally published. It’s a real lesson about working hard and it paying off. I’ve always loved fashion and was able to merge my two interests in 2010 when I began working on my third book, New York Fashion Week.

As a fashion journalist, how did you see your role change in covering the shows?
I think that it has evolved. First it was just writing about the shows themselves, and I was writing [New York Fashion Week] at the same time, so I was more of a historian. Now I’m covering the shows with a focus on the current fashions, and what’s going on this season. It’s about the designers, and not so much the history.

What is your favorite part of NYFW?
I love seeing the shows, but I think even a little, tiny bit

American fashion designer (born 1961)

Narciso Jesus Rodriguez III (Latin American Spanish:[naɾˈsisoroˈðɾiɣes]; born January 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer.

Early life and education

Rodriguez was born in Newark, New Jersey, the eldest child and only son of Cuban parents. His parents, Narciso Rodríguez Sanchez II, a longshoreman, and Rawedia María Rodríguez. His paternal grandfather was born on the Canary Islands.

Rodriguez graduated from St. Cecilias High School in 1979, a small Catholic school in Kearny, New Jersey. He then studied at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, where Isaac Mizrahi was a classmate. His parents were against Narciso entering fashion.

Career

Rodriguez performed freelance design work in New York before becoming Women’s Design Director for the Anne Klein label, then later working for Calvin Klein. His first major attention came in 1996 when he designed the wedding dress of fellow Calvin Klein employee Carolyn Bessette for her wedding to John F. Kennedy Jr.

Early in his career, Rodriguez worked as a design assistant at Calvin Klein, as a design consultant at Tse Athletics, and as design director of Cerruti Arte (1995–1997).

Loewe

From 1997 to 2001, Rodriguez held the position as women’s ready-to-wear designer at Loewe.

Narciso Rodriguez

Also in 1997, Rodriguez launched his own label. That year, he showed his first fur collection under his own name for Goldin-Feldman in New York.

When George magazine collapsed after John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death, Rodriguez hired Stephanie Mikesell, who had been an editorial assistant there, as his assistant. He designed her wedding gown when she married Mark Madoff, eldest son of Bernie Madoff.

In 2003, Rodriguez launched his first fragrance, N