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Article: TRAILBLAZERS; FROM HOLLYWOOD TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO MADISON AVENUE, AMERICAN DESIGNERS HAVE CLEARED AN IMPRESSIVE PATH OF THEIR OWN.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- May 28, 2002
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Let's face it. There's been a hierarchy on Seventh Avenue since well before designers became more famous than the houses they worked for.
Manufacturers were once more powerful than designers, stores more so than the vendors. But along every step of the journey of American fashion, there have been trailblazers -- those designers who stepped out from the back rooms to greet their clients, the ones who followed their own hearts rather than the Parisian trends, those who forged their own retail paths and those who created the first megabrands. Each has influenced the industry in his or her own, distinctively American way, inspiring and carving a certain path for ...