Stephen Sprouse Quotes

- Designer | September 12, 1953 - March 4, 2004

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

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That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

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The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

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I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

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I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

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I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

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I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

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When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

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I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

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But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

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I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

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Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

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