After nearly 40 years as a fashion and television icon, Isaac Mizrahi is still finding new ways to surprise his audience.

The designer and former “Project Runway: All Stars” judge will return to his musical roots this week when he takes the stage in New York for a four-night run of his new cabaret act, simply titled “Hooray!”

The show, which opens Wednesday at the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below, finds him putting his spin on songs made famous by Billie Eilish and Blondie, among other pop musicians.

“A word I use a lot is ‘hooray.’ I use it in my emails, I text it to people ... it’s on some of my stationery,” Mizrahi told HuffPost when asked about his show’s title.

The evening’s set list, he quipped, is “all carbs, pure sugar, pure spaghetti. If you want morals, get tickets for ‘Death of a Salesman,’ because there you will get that.”

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mizrahi spent his adolescent years dreaming of breaking into show business as a performer. After his fashion career took off in the late 1980s and early ’90s, he performed regularly in concerts and cabaret shows like 2000’s “Les Mizrahi.” In 2022, he made his Broadway debut as Amos Hart in “Chicago.”

While Mizrahi understands why viewers are more likely to associate him with his luxury designs or his high-profile TV gigs, he admits to feeling miffed when someone says they’re completely unaware of his singing talents, particularly in an era when many Hollywood stars embrace numerous creative outlets.

“If Pharrell Williams wants to be the head of Louis Vuitton, or if Sarah Jessica Parker wants to do shoes, that’s absolutely fine,” he said. “Everybody needs to stop saying, ‘Oh, I didn’t know.’ I’ve told you a million times. I need to be given the chance.”

Despite his show’s emphasis on levity, Mizrahi won’t steer clear of current events entirely, pointing to his rendition of Laura Nyro’s politically tinged 1968 hit, “Save the Country.”

“How do you avoid being in a room with a bunch of smart people without making a few jokes about where we are? The only way we’re going to get through this, darling, is to make jokes about it,” he said. “Escapism is like air freshener, because the lights come up and it’s like, ‘Oh God, that’s right, he’s president.’ You know what I mean?”

In addition to “Hooray!,” Mizrahi has been especially prolific in his professional life as of late. In June, he was named Target’s first-ever creative director at large after having collaborated with the retailer since 2002.

“I don’t know why you have to pay like $800 for a sweater when a $40 sweater can be great,” he said of his Target gig. “I am someone who cares so deeply about that store [and] I need to help them bring back this idea of design democracy that they created, because I feel like the world has caught up with that. This was before Zara. This was before Uniqlo.”

And next month, the 1995 documentary “Unzipped” ― chronicling the debut of Mizrahi’s 1994 runway collection, with appearances by supermodels Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington ― will receive a big-screen re-release.

“It’s great to look at what fashion was in the ’90s [because] I don’t know if it can ever go back to that,” he said. “America was really doing incredible things at that time. So I love giving the world the opportunity to see that ― not to mention, Naomi, Cindy, Linda and Christy looking amazing.”

Mizrahi is hopeful that the 54 Below engagement of “Hooray!” will be followed by additional engagements for the show across the U.S. between now and December, when he’ll bring back his yuletide-themed show, “A Holiday Fruitcake.”

The message of “Hooray!,” he explained, is simple.

“Start doing what you’re going to do. Start living your best life,” he said. “We don’t have time for the shit people anymore, you know what I mean?”

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