Todd Oldham went from a lucrative position as a fashion designer, to a television host of his own show, to a book writer. He stated that while the fashion industry did yield many opportunities and friendships, it was just a bit too pretentious for his biological make up. He co-hosted a show for a bit, with Cindy Crawford…called “House of Style” and did a short stint on the Bravo reality show, “Top Design”. And while design is always fascinating for Oldham, these shows too, just didn’t quite fit.
His book, released last November in 2009, is “Kid Made Modern”. His love of books throughout his lifetime, and his desire to create and nurture child artists is what has him fascinated now. The art world of the United States is centered around this city, from the poets in the cafes of the Village, to the musicians on just about every street corner, to the paintings that hang in the galleries and on the walls of the 4 star hotels. New York has been the breeding ground for some of the most influential artists of all mediums for many years.
Now, Oldham surrounds himself with people who love the world of art and design , for its own sake, without pretension and without snobbery, and what better world to be in than the world of a child. Artists of every genre and every discipline have within themselves the need to do it on their own, without the constructs of others telling them “what they should be” doing. This is when Oldham is at his happiest, and notes that children operate in this manner when they are producing works of art. He has been deemed the “Pied Piper” of art, not only for the children of the city, but for his colleagues and peers as well. Oldham will go down in the art history books as one of the most influential individuals of the New York art scene .