Sterling Ruby brings joy to Florence
t is so rare these days for designers new to fashion to appear from nowhere and make an impact. At 47, Californian artist Sterling Ruby is not exactly fresh to fame, as a mightily successful modern artist with multiple different creations, not to mention his collaborations with Raf Simons during the designer’s time at Calvin Klein.

Yet the roar of joy from an audience penned in a broiling hot former Florence hay barn was one of those fashion ‘moments’, a tribal approval of a collection that expressed a current yearning for craft, for originality and also for wearable but artistic clothes.https://www.instagram.com/p/ByqI7RJnD9E/?utm_source=ig_embed“I balance things – I am a manic personality,” said the designer, referring to his other artistic ‘day jobs’ – from painting to sculpture, and including the photography of his wife, Melanie Schiff, who collaborated to produce original patterns, such as her photographic images of candles her husband had built as fine art.
