The New Yorker Festival - Generation X Fashion: Young American Designers

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Judith Thurman, moderator. With Alice Roi, Behnaz Sarafpour, and Tara Subkoff.

Judith Thurman has been contributing essays, reviews, and criticism to The New Yorker since 1987, and currently writes the In Fashion column. She is the author of biographies of Colette and Isak Dinesen, and has won a National Book Award and the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award. Her Profile of the fashion designer Rei Kawakubo appeared in the July 4th issue.

Alice Roi, a native New Yorker, opened her design house in 1999, at the age of 23. Previously, she studied at the Parsons School of Design and worked at Elle magazine and Fashion Group International. In 2001, she was nominated for the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Perry Ellis Award for Womenswear.

Behnaz Sarafpour began her career at the Parsons School of Design, where she received the Golden Thimble Award. She has worked with Narciso Rodriguez, Richard Tyler, and Isaac Mizrahi, and for four years she was the designer of the Barneys New York Collection. She launched her eponymous clothing line in 2001.

Tara Subkoff designs for the label Imitation of Christ, which she co-founded, with Matt Damhave, in 2000. Their inaugural New York fashion show was staged at an East Village funeral parlor. An art-school dropout, she has appeared in numerous films, including The Last Days of Disco, The Cell, and, most recently, Anchorman.

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