Isaac Mizrahi: Dapper designer’s singing with style | Bay Area Reporter

“The Isaac Mizrahi style has never changed since day one,” boasted the fashion icon in an interview with the Bay Area Reporter, “I love the body, I love flesh, darling! I’m a mad person about textiles!”

Mizrahi chatted in between shows with his jazz sextet before they barrel toward two final shows in San Francisco. Mizrahi is, at 63 years old, just as ambitious, confident and hilarious as ever. But his rise to fashion super-stardom almost didn’t happen. You might say that fashion was Isaac Mizrahi’s Plan B, his first love was the stage.

“ I was supposed to be a performer and actor starting when I was born,” said Mizrahi, “but I was too afraid.” (continued

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