Guided by thread, fabrics, drive and imagination, Bosha Stone’s work lit up couture runways, Broadway stages, and Hollywood sets for decades.

Blue evening gown on the runway
Bosha Johnson runway collection
Bosha Johnson runway collection
Blue evening gown on the runway

BOSHA JOHNSON STONE

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I am inspired when I am surrounded by raw materials, rolls of fabric, spools of ribbons, yarns, and threads. They are my crayons, my paints, my canvas, my clay.

The garment that secured her distinction was not flamboyant in the conventional sense. It consisted of a black matte jersey column dress, high-necked, long-sleeved, cylindrical which she layered with white organdy pinafore edged with black piping and a profusion of circular ruffles. The effect was austere and decorative, like an argument between restraint and flourish conducted in fabric. It suggested a designer interested less in trend than in structure.

FASHION
DESIGN.

After graduating from the Parsons School of Design with four distinguished awards, Bosha spent decades as the designer behind well-known brands and names.

She began as an assistant to Chester Weinberg and Donald Brooks, then became Associate Designer at Mary Ann Restivo and then designed for Geoffrey Beene. She launched her own collection, Bosha Johnson Internal, before shaping knits as Senior Design Director at Donna Karan and later serving as Vice President of Design for Nautica Women’s Collection under David Chu. Along the way, she left a lasting imprint on the textures, cuts, and silhouettes that marked the city’s, and the era’s, evolving style.

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Florida fashion collection — photograph 1
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Costume illustration
It all starts with the material, the way the fabric moves, feels, and falls.
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COSTUMES for
STAGE & FILM.

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