The designer to the stars bringing minimalism to the masses
telegraph.co.ukpeak Kate Moss, in her gleaming, glowing, sleek Johnny Depp days? The ultimate picture of those two (for me at least) was the pair of them in Cannes, with Kate in a boat-neck grey sheath dress, crimson lips and metres of gleaming tanned skin.
Or Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s flawless slip of a wedding dress – fiendishly deceptive in its simplicity, and 30 years later, still a centrepiece on a million bride-to-be mood boards.
Or how about Rachel Weisz, then emerging from the chrysalis of an up-and-coming London theatre actress to become a bona fide Hollywood star, in any number of classy, understated, pared-back dresses?The man behind them all was Narciso Jesus Rodriguez, a second generation American Cuban, who trained at Parsons School of Design in New York before working with Donna Karan and Calvin Klein before setting up his own label in 1997.
Even though he’s probably best known for his fantastically successful perfume, Rodriguez, one of the most modest men in fashion, has exerted an extraordinary influence over what we wore.
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