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Before There Were Influencers, There Was Antonio, Illustrator Extraordinaire and Arbiter of Style

  • Antonio Lopez and Nancy North at Caf Bonaparte Paris 1972.
    Photo: Antonio Lopez / Courtesy of The Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos, 2012. From Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco directed by James Crump
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    Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco

    Antonio Lopez and Nancy North at Café Bonaparte, Paris, 1972.

  • Photo: Antonio Lopez / Courtesy of The Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos, 2012. From Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco directed by James Crump
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    Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco

    Carol LaBrie, for Italian Vogue, 1971.

  • Photo: Antonio Lopez / Courtesy of The Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos, 2012. From Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco directed by James Crump
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    Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco

    Antonio Lopez, Pat Cleveland, and Karl Lagerfeld, Paris, 1970.

  • Photo: Antonio Lopez / Courtesy of The Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos, 2012. From Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco directed by James Crump
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    Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco

    Antonio Lopez, Corey Tippin, and Donna Jordan, St.-Tropez, 1970.

  • Photo: Antonio Lopez / Courtesy of The Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos, 2012. From Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco directed by James Crump
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    Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion Disco

    Tina Chow, London, 1975.

Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More