If you were the new ’80s working woman and shopped for trendy yet well-designed women’s clothing that brought you from day to dinner, chances are the Regina Kravitz label rings a bell.…
Move over “Emily in Paris” meet “Estelle in New York”! Instead of a fictitious ditzy American with a propensity for dressing outlandishly, Estelle is a pragmatic Parisian who dresses others in her…
Notes by Marilyn Kirschner Part 1 of “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” which opens September 18th, features approximately 100 men’s and women’s ensembles by a diverse group of designers from the…
A little over a year ago, Fashion Group International checked in with luxury retailers on Madison Avenue to see how they were faring during the Covid-19 pandemic we now known as Alpha.…
When I first saw that Fashion Group International was sponsoring a Zoom event featuring Fern Mallis and Simon Doonan, I naturally thought that the former CFDA executive director and host of the…
Post pandemic retail distribution has entered a “Field of Dreams” like state. “If you build it, they will come” is the takeaway I got from FGI’s recent retail symposium entitled “New Opportunities…
#Oscarssoweird! Like an entitled trust fund brat, Oscar delayed his grand entrance to make it live. This selfless act of late middle-to-endish (hopefully) pandemic protocol avoided the Zoom doom of (lesser) predecessors.…
Airport style – it didn’t use to be an oxymoron like “jumbo shrimp.” After being grounded (like most people living through the pandemic) for an entire year, I recently hopped a flight…
Was Scarlett O’Hara one of the first upcyclers? “I just saw this in the window and couldn’t resist,” Carol Burnett famously deadpanned in a skit as she pranced around in those iconic…
“Fashion is nonpolitical and nonpartisan,” Oscar de la Renta (who dressed nearly every first lady of the last half-century) famously said. On Friday afternoon I was invited to watch a Zoom presentation…
No galas! No luncheons! No endless outfit changes! No rushing around like a headless chicken trying to juggle everything into a two week period of non-stop festivities! Nothing that actually signals the…
Where were you in ’92? Steve Eichner knows precisely where he was and has the photos to prove it! On any given night, you could find him chronicling the NYC club circuit,…