Friday, May 1, 2009

Farewell, Kenneth Paul Block


“More than any single designer, he gave New York fashion its sophistication,” the designer Isaac Mizrahi said in Susan Mulcahy’s 2008 book, “Drawing Fashion: The Art of Kenneth Paul Block”. “Because he drew Babe Paley and Jackie Kennedy a certain way, they became what he had envisioned.”

“From early childhood,” Block said, “I wanted to draw glamorous women in beautiful clothes.”

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