CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/20/2016

The Isaac Mizrahi Pictures: New York City 1989–1993. Photographs by Nick Waplington

"During the summer of 1989, I regularly visited Richard Avedon in his Upper East Side studio. On each visit we would share work and discuss art, sometimes he would cook me dinner and occasionally we would take trips to exhibits. That fall, Avedon introduced me to the fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi—he thought that despite our very different backgrounds we would get on and should work together. Luckily, he was right, and so for the next three years I spent time photographing the goings-on behind the scenes in the Mizrahi fashion house in downtown SoHo. Some of the pictures ended up in advertisements designed by Tibor Kalman… the rest have not been seen until now." Featured image captures studio regular André Leon Talley consulting with Mizrahi and model.