The shows for spring 2020 have finally ended. This is a season of high contrasts, contradictions, mixed metaphors, and extremes. It is more about individuality and less about trends. In fact, just…
Last night kicked off the 9th year of Fern Mallis’s Fashion Icons at the 92nd Street Y. The special guest was American couturier Ralph Rucci, who just launched his new couture line…
NYFW officially kicked off with the Couture Council of The Museum at FIT’s Artistry in Fashion Award ceremony and luncheon. This year’s honoree was Christian Louboutin. While Christian’s loafers, sneakers, and kitten…
Bill Cunningham, who passed away in 2016, comes back with the September 3rd release of Bill Cunningham: On the Street: Five Decades of Iconic Photography. Published by Penguin Random House, it is…
Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, the only museum that specializes in fashion, once proclaimed that the smartest thing she ever did was to start the…
Curb link chains add a bit of an edge to everything; even the simplest or most elegant of pieces. They are nothing new. But they ARE being used in new and fresh…
The spring 2020 collections are upon us, and yet another fashion cycle is set to begin. Given the way fashion comes at us at a breakneck speed 24/7 (and the busy lives…
When First Lady Michelle Obama uttered these famous words at the Democratic National Convention in July 2016, she was speaking about the lessons she and President Obama tried to instill in their…
Like everything else nowadays, fashion can get heavy and weighty. There’s a tendency on the part of designers and journalists, to overthink, overanalyze, over-intellectualize and take a cerebral and cynical approach to…
This is just one of the countless declarations made by Bonnie Cashin many decades ago. The fact that it doesn’t apply to her chic and functional sportswear designs makes it all the…
On July 20th, Neil Armstrong (who died at the age of 82 in 2012) uttered what would become one of history’s most famous one-liners. But before he could make that “one small…
We are currently under the astrological sign of Cancer (June 21- July 22) which is ruled by the moon. Unsurprisingly, Pierre Cardin, who is a moon child (he turned 97 on July…