The Council of Fashion Designers of America again named Narciso Rodriguez, a red carpet favorite of Sarah Jessica Parker and Salma Hayek, as the country's best womenswear designer.
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Get fit: Rodriguez, who prides himself on designing clothes that real women can wear, gives the (well- tailored) shirt off his back to help fight breast cancer. Narciso Rodriguez on matters of fashion, and what really matters.
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A fashion studio's nature is controlled chaos—for Narciso Rodriguez in New York, architect Calvert Wright provided the control. If you're not actually walking down a red carpet while wearing a Narciso Rodriguez gown, you're probably in a limo on the way to the gala. The Rodriguez prototype woman has a boldface name, earns eight figures per movie, and never wears the same dress twice. Just think Sarah Jessica Parker, who sat in the front row at his recent New York show, or Salma Hayek, who paraded around the Frida premiere in a stunning pink Rodriguez frock.
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NEW YORK, February 8, 2005 – Paris Hilton, who sauntered into Narciso Rodriguez's show with Tinkerbell cradled in her arms, seems like an unlikely fan. She's way too flash for this designer's understated, architectural chic. But perhaps she gleaned something from Rodriguez's scuba-tight seamed constructions, something his many boldface followers already know: Covering up can be sexy. The proof is in his fabulous coats, from a pale-red double-face wool to a corseted herringbone style slashed almost fetishistically above the breasts to reveal the clothes or bare skin beneath.
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ON HIS WEB SITE, Narciso Rodriguez wrote the following about himself: ‘As a child, I was fascinated by cutting, painting, drawing and construction. I think that is where my love of minimal architecture started and it is [said] architecture that continues to inspire me today.’ His approach to designing a garment is ‘much the same way an architect approaches designing a building, with seaming for structure to create interesting fit lines and shape, [and by designing] primarily in black and white as I find it to be the boldest graphic way to present a sharp clean silhouette.’
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It was the wedding dress heard and talked about around the world. On September 21, 1996, when Carolyn Bessette Kennedy stepped out of that rustic church on the arm of John F. Kennedy Jr., it wasn't just the famous man on her arm that women were drooling over--it was that wedding dress. It was a white silk dress that was simple, elegant, classy, and unbelievably sexy. Sexy! A wedding dress? That was the part people couldn't get over. While most women end up looking like an over-frosted cupcake on their wedding day, Carolyn Besette Kennedy had accomplished what most considered impossible. She made herself look like both a princess and a temptress at the same time. And that look was created by none other than one of her best friends, Narciso Rodriguez.
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