{"id":379,"date":"2008-01-30T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2016-11-27T23:29:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T04:29:13","slug":"mizrahi-oldham-roth-magic-and-loony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/mizrahi-oldham-roth-magic-and-loony\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizrahi, Oldham, Roth, Magic and Loony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the ’90s, young designers Isaac Mizrahi, Todd Oldham and Christian Francis Roth were fashion stars. They were awesome. They didn’t make enough money to stay in business, but they were awesome.<\/p>\n

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Isaac and the supermodels.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I last wrote about these designing men in September<\/a>, when Oldham was named creative director for Old Navy. Earlier this month, Mizrahi gave up his style-for-the-masses job at Target to give Liz Claiborne a makeover<\/a>. These dudes are on the move<\/a>, so where’s Christian Francis Roth<\/a>? He’s the next guy who needs a big corporate job. Crayola needs to hire him! In 1990, he did a dress that looked like a box of crayons with “Rothola” on it. The crayon people got all lawyer-y on his ass till he agreed to pay them a few bucks. Personally, I think they missed a great marketing opportunity. They should have paid him to do a whole Rothola line AND they should have hired a pop star to sing the theme song: “Rothola, ola, ola, eh eh eh. Color with Rothola, ola ola ola.” The singer also could have modeled the Rothola makeup line.<\/p>\n

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