Biography isaac mizrahi

American fashion designer and television presenter (born 1961)

Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961)^[1] is an American fashion designer, actor, singer, television presenter and chief designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand for Xcel Brands.^[2] Based in New York City, he is best known for his eponymous fashion lines.

Mizrahi was previously a judge on Project Runway All Stars. In 2022 he played Amos Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago.

Life

Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn, the son of Sarah and Zeke Mizrahi,^[3] who was a children's clothing manufacturer.^[1] He is of Syrian-Jewish descent.

His maternal grandparents were Jews from Aleppo, Syria.^[4] He grew up as the youngest boy of his family in Midwood, Brooklyn.^[5] He bought his first sewing machine at the age of ten with money he had saved from babysitting that summer.^[6] At 15, he launched his own label, IS New York, with the h