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Article: Not your father's golf wear. (Gene Meyer's fashion concept)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- June 10, 1997
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"There's definitely a suburban thing to what I do. But like men to dress lot sexier than that," says Gene Meyer, sitting in the conference room of his stylish 57th Street showroom in Manhattan. "My first collection was like subversive golf wear."
When one views Meyer's vibrant clothes, it's hard not to be reminded of retro golf fashion; those loud polyester-blend shirts, those tighter-than-tight checked slacks. With his bright, liberating line of menswear, the hot New York-based designer has brought sex and suburbia together in collections that are winning him acclaim in the fashion industry and changing the silhouette of the American male.
Meyer is ...