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Article: Stephen Sprouse 1953-2004: a tribute to the man who put pop into fashion's palette.(Flashback)(Obituary)
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- Interview
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- May 1, 2004
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How does one label an artist who hated labels? Such is the dilemma when describing the life and work of Stephen Sprouse, the fashion designer, painter, pop-punk visionary, and longtime Interview contributor who died in March at the age of 50.
Paige Powell, a close friend of Sprouse's, remembers first meeting him in the early 1980s at Andy Warhol's Factory, which was also home to Interview. "Stephen would come up and have lunch," she recalls. "He was extremely shy, but he constantly provided Andy with energy. He was just so rock 'n' roll."
And he was a perfect embodiment of the cultural renaissance of the times, when the barriers separating high and low, ...