"They bring out the best in women," says Mark of his clotes (above, on Yasmine Bleeth at his boutique)
Right: Jennie Garth in Mark Wong Nark
Fitting Pretty
Photographs by Neal Preston / Outline
Designer Tom Mark's bodacious dresses help celebrities show off their bodies of work.
His dresses hug a curve as confidently as a $150,000 Ferrari. His client list includes Drew Barrymore, Courtney Cox, Baywatch's Yasmine Bleeth -- and half of the rest of young Hollywood. Yet, if Tom Mark feels he's got the fashion game beat, the designer has a funny way of showing it. Working late nights at his Los Angeles factory, Mark can spend hours fine-tuning the armhole of an evening coat. Often he'll painstakingly hand-stitch 30 version s of a dress -- until he sense he will hang right on Tori Spelling or Alicia Silverstone.
"Each garment has to look gorgeous from every angle."
"My clothes must perfectly caressa woman's body. Anything less and I lose sleep worrying."
