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
fashion art rocks
Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.
I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
art mix rock sort
It's actually rock, art and then fashion, sort of in that order. That's why I like rock and roll, because I can mix all those arts.
fine job leave permission school since
And I got permission to leave school since I got a job with him in the city, which was fine with me because I wanted to he away from Rhode Island.
ads clothes draw taught
That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.
I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.
eight mixtures towns
I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
fashion school sick
I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.
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.
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
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.
fashion art college
When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.
fashion art thinking
I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
school rhode-island islands
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.