ISAAC MIZRAHI Designer and entertainer Photo: Jason Frank Rothenberg
“?et me get right to it,” says Isaac Mizrahi when asked why he responds so viscerally to the paintings of Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944). “Color! It’s the first thing I’m drawn to in her canvases. Her intensive use of color pulls me in. They are like candy or ice cream — colors that are delicious.”
Mizrahi — a fashion designer, actor, cabaret singer, writer, comedian, filmmaker, and entertainer — does not shy from expressing his passions, in private or in public. “When I was looking at her paintings at the Jewish Museum, I was losing my mind in the galleries, I was so excited,” he says, referring to a major exhibition there of the artist’s works, Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry. It runs through…
