Behnaz Sarafpour
Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Behnaz Sarafpour (born 1969)[1] is an Iranian-born American fashion designer,[2] and fragrance designer.[3] She had a ready-to-wear line of women's apparel bearing her name, Behnaz Sarafpour, Ltd. from 2001 until 2014, and has her own perfume line.[4][3] Sarafpour has held design positions at Isaac Mizrahi, Narciso Rodriguez,[4] Richard Tyler,[4] Anne Klein,[5] and Barneys New York.[5] She has been based in New York City and Pound Ridge, New York.[3]
Early life and education
Sarafpour was born in 1969 in Tehran, Iran and was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1][6]
She attended Parsons School of Design (BFA 1992), where she was honored with the Golden Thimble Award.[7][4] She interned at Anne Klein, studying under Narciso Rodriguez and Richard Tyler.[1] Sarafpour's aesthetic is a layered look, often in the colors black, white, shades of grey, and metallics, and she likes a hand–dyed or hand-painted fabric.[1][2] She likes to experiment with fabrics.[2]
Career
After graduation she designed for Isaac Mizrahi from 1994 to 1998.[1][6] She later became a womenswear designer for the Barneys New York private apparel label from 1998 to 2003.[1][6] In 2001, she founded her own label, and first sold it at Barneys New York.[6]
In 2002, Sarafpour had her first runway show at New York Fashion Week, sponsored by Style.com.[1][2] Other runway sponsors have included Moët & Chandon, Hewlett-Packard, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Tiffany & Co.[1][8] Her Spring 2005 sponsor, Tiffany & Co., allowed her to present the collection at the jewelry company's 5th Avenue flagship store.[9] In November 2006, Sarafpour designed a collection of clothing and accessories for Target Corporation's Go International.[4] Sarafpour also minted a limited-edition lipstick for Lancôme and jeans for Scott Morrison's Earnest Sewn collection.[10]
Sarafpour is a member of Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).[11] She has been nomination for the CFDA Swarovski/Perry Ellis Award for ready to wear apparel in 2003, 2004, and 2005.[6] In 2013, she was awarded the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Award in fashion.[1]
In 2007, Sarafpour was one of five designers whose work was chosen to feature in the Sportswear section of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London's New York Fashion Now exhibition.[12] Sarafpour was honored at the White House in July 2010 as a finalist of the Smithsonian's National Design Award in the fashion design category.[13]
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d e Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d e Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".Template:Cbignore
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Official website
- Template:Fashiondesigner
- Template:PAGENAMEBASE collections at style.com (archived)
Script error: No such module "Authority control".
- Pages with script errors
- American fashion designers
- American women fashion designers
- Iranian fashion designers
- Iranian women fashion designers
- Fashion designers from New York City
- Living people
- 21st-century American women
- 1969 births
- Parsons School of Design alumni
- Artists from Philadelphia
- Iranian emigrants to the United States
- People from Pound Ridge, New York