Isaac Mizrahi has never been to Charleston. But that’s about to change for the fashion icon known for his sharp eye on “Project Runway: All Stars.”
Mizrahi's bringing his theatrical variety show “I Know Everybody” to the Charleston Music Hall downtown as part of Spoleto Festival USA this year. He will take the stage June 5 at 8 p.m. and again June 7 at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Isaac Mizrahi of "Project Runway: All Stars" is bringing his theatrical variety show “I Know Everybody” to the Charleston Music Hall in June as part of Spoleto Festival USA this year.
Mizrahi is a seasoned cabaret singer approaching his 10th year in residence at the Café Carlyle in New York City. He has traveled throughout the country selling out venues, such as the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.
“I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to perform in Charleston,” Mizrahi told The Post and Courier.
For “I Know Everybody,” he infuses the classic cabaret experience with his signature charisma and style, blending runway elegance with sharp humor and a touch of irreverence. He will be backed by a jazz ensemble, punctuating an array of songs with entertaining anecdotes.
“I tell a lot of stories about people I know,” he said. “Liza Minnelli. Barbra Streisand. I have a whole story about Jon Hamm. And I do a really good version of the Noël Cowart tune ‘Mad About the Boy.’"
Mizrahi, who first gained prominence in the late 1980s as a womenswear fashion designer, has been in the performing arts for decades and has worked with the musical director of his current show, pianist Ben Waltzer, since the late 1990s.
He performed a one-man show “Les Mizrahi” on Broadway in 2000 and took on the role of Amos Hart in the Broadway revival of “Chicago” in 2022. He’s worked as a costume designer for theater and opera productions, including “The Women,” for which he won a Drama Desk Award in 2002. He hosted “The Isaac Mizrahi Show” in the early 2000s and has made various appearances in movies and TV, in addition to writing three books.
“In my travels as a designer, talk show host and performer, I've met a million gillion people, and those are the stories that come out on stage,” he said.
"I Know Everybody" embodies the many facets of who Mizrahi is.
“I want the audience to walk away knowing that I can sing, that I have a special kind of humor and that I can tell a story in a special kind of way — almost like writing on the spot,” he said. “My stories take a different shape each time.”