BURROWS Stephen (Designer)

A geometrical printed jersey dress by Stephen Burrows is decorated with his trademark "lettuce" edging. Deliberately created by closely zig-zag stitching on raw seams, it is an example of how Burrows sparingly used machine techniques to decorate his fluid, sexy vision of modern feminity. The full cut of this dress will have produced a wake of rippling fabric, giving it sinuous movement. Customers who visited his store-within-a-store, Stephen Burrows' World at Henri Bendel, in the 1970s, came for simple jersey and chiffon outfits that then defined New York style. In 1971, Halston told Interview magazine that Burrows was "one of the unrecognized geniuses of the fashion world... Stephen gives the most original cut in America today. And the thing is really the cut". One of Burrows' favourite cuts is the asymmetric (where the hem is cut on the diagonal), about which he said, "There's something nice about something wrong". 

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