reporter:
Miguel Dominguez
To commemorate the publication of
This Is A Kenneth Cole Production (2013, Rizzoli) written by Kenneth Cole and
Lisa Birnbach, with contribution by
Diane Von Furstenberg,
Joe Zee and Bill Clinton, the
National Arts Club Fashion Committee presented an evening with Kenneth Cole on January 24th.
This Is A Kenneth Cole Production is the first and definitive book on the fashion of Kenneth Cole and his thirty year career in fashion and social activism. His footwear and fashion design capture the New York style. Kenneth Cole jump started his fashion business in the most unorthodox of ways: he created a film set and pretended to make a film in order to gain access to New York Market Week. In two and a half days,
Kenneth Cole Productions sold 40,000 pairs of shoes. Moments like this are par for the course when viewing Cole’s career, a truly original yet classic American success story.