Life is slowly getting back to normal, and we are starting to congregate with others more freely- both at home and in restaurants. If fashion history proves anything, it’s that everything old…
Two: Minds, a new multi-brand luxury retailer, will open on Gansevoort Street in New York’s Meatpacking District in late April. It is the brainchild of Jesse Dong, a former buyer at Jeffrey…
Coco Chanel famously said, “The best things in life are free. The second best are very, very expensive.” There is irrefutable wisdom to that observation, but I have also found a happy…
The oldest and most prestigious vintage show in New York is The Manhattan Vintage Show, held at the Metropolitan Pavilion at 215 West 18th Street. It is seamlessly produced by David Ornstein,…
Nobody knows when we will return to the opera, theater, or ballet (the NYC Ballet is currently filming productions to stream without audiences). We don’t know when galas will cease being virtual…
On Tuesday, March 16th, my beautiful mother, Toby Kirschner, passed away. She was just 46 days shy of her 101st birthday. Mom was the strongest woman I knew. She not only escaped…
The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards air on CBS this Sunday at 8 p.m. “Music’s Biggest Night” recognizes the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the year, running from September 1, 2019, through…
The Golden Globes are typically shown in January. But due to the ongoing pandemic, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will air them on Sunday, February 28th. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will…
There was a time when you said “American Collections”, one immediately thought of iconic American fashion greats who changed the way we dressed: Beene, Norell, Cashin, McCardell, Donald Brooks, Norma Kamali, Calvin…
There’s been a steep decline in Covid cases. People are getting vaccinated, masking up, practicing good hygiene, and safely distancing themselves. Every day is getting a little brighter, and there is a…
On August 28th, 2019, Katie Holmes was photographed hailing a taxi in New York City wearing a cashmere cardigan and bra set from Catherine Holstein’s New York label KHAITE. Holmes wisely played…
The subject line in Vanessa Friedman’s “Open Thread” letter on Friday, January 29th, was “Let’s Talk About Skinny Jeans,” and accompanied by a photo showing models in skinny jeans and towering platforms.…