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Fanfair
Dress Is More
Fanfair
Dress Is More
Dress Is More
"I have very vivid memories of clothing, " says Shawn Ray Fons, describing a lime-green suit his mother wore on Easter when he was three. The youngest of ten children from "the boonies of Michigan, " Fons studied fashion at the Rhode Island School of Design. Now he is creating glamorous evening separates so "spare and unadorned" they make the bugle bead obsolete. Obsessed with technical perfection,
Fons does everything himself—from making patterns to sweeping the showroom. As he shyly notes, "l know what I want more than anyone else. "
AMYFINECOLLINS
