Smart Alex

September, 1976

Now that the revolution is over, American fashion seems to have found its postwar leader in 28-year-old designer Alexander Julian. Bright, engaging, egotistical and immensely talented, Julian has emerged as perhaps the perfect design honcho for the Seventies. Like most post-revolutionary leaders, he is a traditionalist who shows no intention of departing radically from his forebears. In light of some of the extremes of recent design, Julian is a reactionary. But without a general upheaval in men...