Creative Classicism

August, 1981

Given the fact that Alan Flusser's father was something of a sartorial dandy ("The guy was nuts about Fred Astaire"), it's not surprising that young Alan began to have his wardrobe tailor-made at 17 and now, at 35, is one of menswear's brightest luminaries and the head of his own fashion company. Flusser's personal style is Savile Row with flair (as the picture of him at right attests)--and in an industry in which planned obsolescence has replaced good design, all too often, it's a ple...