Design philosophy. “Designing and sewing throughout my childhood was a way for me to channel my passions,” says this cultured, inveterate world traveler born into an art and music-loving family in South Germany in 1963.
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I selected 10 women from the list of nominees, presenters, and attendees. On the left side of each picture are photos of them at a prior red carpet event. The pictures on the right are my choices — all from the fall 2022 ready-to-wear collections
As I watch the Fall 2022 collections unfold (they end in Paris on Tuesday) and read the reviews, I sometimes feel like I’m the only one who is shuddering at many of the things I’m seeing. And it’s not a generational thing.
On Thursday evening, New York’s spring gala scene officially returned with the New York Botanical…
Yeohlee, the award-winning designer who has been ahead of the pack for 41 years, showed her Fall 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection on Thursday. Held at the YEOHLEE retail store at 12 West 29th Street…
Michael Kors and Peter Do showed their Fall 2022 Ready-to-Wear collections on Tuesday, just a few hours apart. Michael launched his eponymous line in 1981; Peter Do in 2018.
The New York-based South Korean-born former pattern maker for Yohji Yamamoto and Calvin Klein was inspired by the father of American couture, Charles James. Talk about the ever-expanding “Lexicon of American Fashion.”
Gladys Perint Palmer’s mottos are, “Inform, amuse, learn the rules and then break them,” and she has been doing exactly that for over 40 years. A Fine Line in Fashion: The Art of Gladys Perint Palmer brings together over 30 original fashion illustrations to celebrate the acclaimed fashion illustrator.
Sacai always resonates with me. Not many designers can turn streetwear into covetable, wearable art like Chitose Abe. Her Fall 2022 menswear and pre-fall 2022 womenswear collections were shown together one day before the beginning of Paris Haute Couture Week. While it’s not Haute Couture, it’s close.
Connie Gray and her art dealer husband, Ashley, founded Gray M.C.A Gallery in 2007. It…
Assuredly, the late Coco Chanel was one of them. Coco was my mentor; I was lucky to know her. It’s unimaginable but Chanel taught me one important life-changing thing (besides telling me to make perfume). She said, “fashion is not forever, perfume is”