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Isaac Mizrahi remembers the thoroughly modern master of witty, unexpected color and cut.
of Blass, Beene, and Brooks-the BBB triumvirate that dominated American fashion in the sixties and early seventies-Donald Brooks was the third and most obscure. He died this August at 77, and though he was the most obscure, to me he was the best. Unlike Bill Blass, who had the best taste, and Geoffrey Beene, who had the best technique, Brooks wasn't the best at any one thing, but he was the most creative of them all. With an incredibly light hand, a fabulous color sense, and a tongue always in his cheek, Brooks made clothes that seemed weightless and delightful, like souffls. As we all know, to make something...