Is Norma Kamali Fashion’s Most Prescient Designer?

Norma Kamali began sowing the seeds for her own fashion empire in her 20s, but not by apprenticing at a fashion house. For a spell in the 1960s, she was working as an airline clerk, each weekend shilling out $29 for a roundtrip ticket to London. “England was becoming this hotbed of music, of film, of fashion, and being there every weekend, I felt so much a part of it,” says Kamali, now 76. “It was what my soul was feeling.” The bright, shining modernity in London at the time — all go-go boots and creeping hemlines — was much… Read Full Article