BHM_Stephen_Burrows

Burrows was born September 15, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey. He came to the field of fashion design honestly, starting to make clothes with his grandmother when he was very young. Stephen Burrows was called "one of the most audacious and auspicious talents in contemporary fashion" by Contemporary Fashion. He was one of the first African Americans to become famous as a fashion designer, after Ann Lowe, and he spent the 1970s clothing a great portion of New York City and beyond. He made clothes that made a woman feel beautiful and considered his work "art." In the 1990s Burrows returned wholeheartedly into the public fashion design scene, this time with a line of dresses that were both comfortable and sensual.