Since she made her fashion debut in 1985, Isabel Toledo has been characterized as a problem solver, more engineer – or magician – than designer. Along with her partner in romantic and professional crime, her husband the artist Ruben Toledo, Isabel has for almost two decades operated just outside the fashion system, creating pieces on her own schedule for loyal couture clients (among them, Michelle Obama, who wore a custom dress and overcoat to the Presidential inauguration in 2009). The duo also recently began designing a line for plus size company Lane Bryant. Read more…
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