Narciso Rodriguez
 NEW
YORK CITY (By Kate Betts, Time) August 18, 2005 - It was one dress that put
Cuban-American designer Narciso Rodriguez on the fashion map back in September
1996. He had been toiling away for yearsunder Donna Karan at Anne Klein, as a
design assistant at Calvin Klein and as the designer of the Cerruti label in
Pariswhen his good friend Carolyn Bessette asked him to design her wedding
dress. With one simple matte silk crepe slip, Rodriguez made John F. Kennedy
Jr.'s bride both sexy and ethereala look that would become his fashion hallmark
and the most copied silhouette of the past decade.
"He can cut a dress better than any designer,"
says Kalman Ruttenstein, fashion director of Bloomingdale's, who has known
Rodriguez since he started his label in 1998. The only American to be awarded
the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) award for best designer two
years running, Rodriguez is often cited as the heir to the mantle of American
sportswear's great minimalist innovators: Anne Klein, Halston and Calvin Klein.
But unlike any American designer before him, Rodriguez, 44, draws on his Latino
roots to imbue his designs with a distinctive sense of color, curve and verve.
Although his father, a retired longshoreman,
didn't initially approve of Rodriguez's career choice, preferring that his son
study law or medicine, today he sits in the front row at most of Rodriguez's
shows, right alongside the adoring buyers and celebrities.
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