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Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion.

A podcast where we explore the who-what-win of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callahan.

Dress listeners, the subject of today's podcast,

has been written of by his biographer, Carol McCarney, as quote,

we would see him hanging in the East Village looking cooler than cool.

So cool, it seemed uncool to interrupt his coolness.

Damn, I want someone to say that about me one day.

I know.

We are talking about perhaps one of the most underappreciated fashion designers

of the 20th century.

The name Stephen Sprouse might not be immediately familiar to many of you,

but as a longtime friend and collaborator of Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol,

Sprouse's fashions and art defined the downtown scene in New York during the 1970s,

80s, and into the 1990s.

And honestly, so much of what we continue to see now coming down the runway today,

50 years later, I mean, Sprouse was a visionary far ahead of his time.

And he has been called the quote,

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