October 2, 2023

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Is Norma Kamali Vogue’s Most Prescient Designer?

Is Norma Kamali Vogue’s Most Prescient Designer?

Norma Kamali started sowing the seeds for her personal style empire in her 20s, however not by apprenticing at a style home. For a spell within the Nineteen Sixties, she was working as an airline clerk, every weekend shilling out $29 for a roundtrip ticket to London.

“England was turning into this hotbed of music, of movie, of style, and being there each weekend, I felt a lot part of it,” says Kamali, now 77. “It was what my soul was feeling.”

The brilliant, shining modernity in London on the time — all go-go boots and creeping hemlines — was far more her beat, a far cry from the girdles awaiting her again dwelling in New York Metropolis. However moderately than lamenting her home destiny, Kamali took issues in her personal arms, filling her suitcase with items to promote in america.