Fashion Is Back BY GRACE HENDRICKS
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FA S H I O N & AC CE S S O R I E S
TROORA MAGAZINE
Daniel George leads the pack in this returning age of fashion
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ounder and designer, Daniel George , owns successful brick and mor tar stores in both San Francisco and Chicago (danielgeorge.com). His designs and his tailoring are renowned, both of which—in addition to his innate abilit y to foster authentic relationships with clients—have earned him a loyal clientele. George takes pleasure in “ wearing a unique suit to a black tie event , listening to the music you want...Don’ t fall into any par ticular categor y.” Wonder fully and unsurprisingly, his clothes and the experience of wearing one of his pieces are equally as bespoke as him. “I think it ’s my parents’ fault really,” George remarked when reflecting on how his interest in fashion began. This wasn’ t hard to believe as George went on to describe his parents, who were both independent style-icons in their own rights and who both
cultivated in George a pride and passion for fashion at an early age. George described his mother—“She’s 90 and still wears couture Oscar.” Over the past few years, the two have rarely ventured out anymore due to his mother ’s health, but “I visited her recently and she had laid out a twopiece sequin Prada suit with heels, jewelr y, and a handbag. I asked her, ‘Do you want to get dressed up?” And she replied, ‘Darling, I always want to get dressed up.’” George’s father was his mother ’s equal in style: “He smoked a pipe, but never in public; he wore London tailored clothing and silk pajamas... with monogrammed clothing slippers.” His father was “a rare read that doesn’t exist anymore...He taught me how to be a gentleman,” George remarked. Although always stylish, it wasn’t until his early twenties that George would star t to establish his own place in fashion.