I just don’t know really where to begin here with this Stephen Burrows piece.  Actually I’m not sure how he showed this dress when he created it back in the day…  Did he show it as a “bat cape” where the panels are in the back of the dress or did he show this piece with the panels in front of the dress?  Either way you slice this, it’s gorgeous beyond words.  I’m actually loving showing it with the “bat cape” in back of the dress….  It really doesn’t matter because what does matter is the fact that when Stephen Burrows entered the NYC fashion scene in the late 60′s nobody was able to predict his metoric rise as one of America’s most celebrated creative forces.  The first African-American designer to attain international stature.  Burrows’s career was distinguished by a succession of “firsts” – he was the first American designer given a free standing boutique called Stephen Burrows’ World at Henri Bendel.  He was among the 5 America designers (Anne Klein, Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta & Halston) that got invited to show in Paris in 1973 at the legendary “Battle of Versailles.”  This was the first time that the American designers were pitted against the French and the Americans got the long standing ovation…  Burrows is considered one of America’s finest fashion designers by just about everyone under the sun.  He has won several COTY Awards and I want to find every piece of vintage Burrows out there on the planet….  I’m Daniel Troppy your vintage luxury curator!  

 

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