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Stephen Sprouse
Designer
About the author
I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#End
#School
#Fashion
I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Being
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.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Art
#Building
#Photography
#Clothes
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.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Friend
#Clothes
That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Clothes
Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Art
#Fashion
#Favorite
When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Art
#College
#Fashion
I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Television
I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
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.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#People
#Art
#Control
#Clothes
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Columbus
I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Time
#People
#Art
#Television
#Music
#Fashion
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.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#Time
#Architecture
#School
#Fashion
#Summer
I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
Stephen Sprouse,
Designer
#School
#Design