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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedTHOM BROWNE COMES TO TOWN; DID YOU EVER TRY TO FIND LITTLE WEST 12 STREET DOWN IN GREENWICH VILLAGE? BELIEVE ME, IT'S NOT EASY, BUT THE TREK WAS WORTH IT TO INTERVIEW DESIGNER THOM BROWNE.(Interview)
Daily News Record, September, 2003 by GELLERS, STAN
Thom who? Actually, I hadn't heard of him either. That's because Thom Browne is a tailored clothing designer with only one retail customer -- Bergdorf Goodman, where his own shop is set to open in January on the hip third floor. Score one more for Robert Burke, the store's vice-president and senior fashion director.
A fitted gray suit designed by Browne that appeared in The New York Times impressed me immediately. A return to an early Ralph? No way. The lapels were narrow and not a replay of Lauren's revolutionary four-inchers. Was it a take on Prada and Gucci? Uh-uh. The jacket and trousers were cropped even shorter, and the natural shoulders had a subtle roping that looked pure custom and something Sean Connery could have worn as James Bond. I was hooked....
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