International style: Meet Michael Vollbracht the iconoclast of designers

Michael Vollbracht is one of those designers who has achieved great notoriety and recognition on a multilevel platform. This is a designer's designer who trained with Beene, collaborated with Henri Bendel , went on to design one of the most emblematic and ubiquitous symbols of life in New York City , then to his groundbreaking eponymous collection and then his final bow on Seventh Avenue at the helm of Bill Blass.