Designers are great white sharks, and we roam the waters ourselves.
We often pretend to like and admire each other, but sometimes we
don't even bother to fake it. The fashion industry is as
hardworking, incestuous, and political as any other, and it's
virtually impossible, given the size of designers' egos, to
sincerely wish someone else well, because behind every false
tribute is 'It should have been me.'So writes Joseph Abboud, who
fell in love with style at five. There in the dark of the movie
house, he wasn't just some Lebanese kid with a babysitter. He was
the hero, in tweeds and pocket squares. That's where he learned
that clothes represented a better life--a life he wanted, and would
grab, for himself. From his blue-collar childhood in Boston's South
End to his spread-collar success as one of America's top designers,
he has forged a remarkable path through the unglamorous business of
making people look glamorous.He transformed American menswear by
replacing the traditional stiff-shouldered silhouette with a
grown-up European sensuality. He was the first designer to win the
coveted CFDA award as Best Menswear Designer two years in a row and
the first designer to throw out the opening pitch at Fenway Park.
He's been jilted by Naomi Campbell (who didn't show up on the
runway for his first women's fashion show) and questioned by the
FBI (who did show up in his office right after September 11 because
he fit the profile). He's soared and sunk more than a few
times--and lived to tell the tales.Threads is his off-the-record
take on fashion, from the inside out. With breezy irreverence, he
looks at guys and taste, divas and deviousness, fabric and texture,
and all those ties. He takes us to the luxe bastion of Louis
Boston, where he came of age and learned the trade, and to the
seductive domain of Polo Ralph Lauren, where he became associate
director of menswear design. He reveals the mystique of
department-store politics, what's what at the sample sale, and who
copies whom. He explains the process of making great clothes, from
conception and sketch to manufacturing and marketing.Whether he's
traveling by daredevil horse, plunging plane, Paris Metro, or
cross-country limo, Abboud is an illuminating guide to a complex
world.
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