Stephen Sprouse
Stephen Sprouse
Stephen Sprousewas a fashion designer and artist credited with pioneering the 1980s mix of "uptown sophistication in clothing with a downtown punk and pop sensibility"...
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth12 September 1953
ads clothes draw taught
That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.
summer fashion school
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
indiana columbus kind
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
photography art clothes
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.
photography clothes band
The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.
photography art clothes
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.