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Remembering Bloomingdale’s Chairman, the Dearly Departed Martin Traub, 1925-2012
Marvin Traub was a retailer who brought theater into the department store world with opulent merchandising displays. The passing of Marvin Traub this Wednesday, the former chairman and chief executive...
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Top 10 Chanelisms: Coco’s Wise Words to Mark Her Birthday
Coco Chanel demonstrates the sleeve construction and how the high armhole permits freedom of movement without lifting the hem of the jacket. Yesterday would have been the 129th birthday of Coco...
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Stocking Series, Part 1: Wartime Rationing and Nylon Riots
Women making hosiery at Minnesac Mills, Philadelphia. (Photo by Lewis Hine, 1936-37.) Women want men, career, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love and cheap...
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New York Fashion Week, Past and Present
Philosophy show at Fashion Week, 2008. Today kicked off New York Fashion Week, the debut of the Spring 2013 designer collections, and for the next seven days, if you don’t catch them on the runway,...
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Only in New York: The Lady in Lime Green
Elizabeth Sweetheart. Yesterday, while riding the F train into Manhattan from Brooklyn, I saw Elizabeth Sweetheart. She was sitting on the subway, wearing lime green from head to toe, glowing. Her...
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Antonio’s World: The Life and Work of a Celebrated Fashion Illustrator
Maria Snyder, Italian Vanity, Versace, 1983. “I’m from the generation that came to New York to meet their idols. In my case it was Andy Warhol and Antonio Lopez.” —Anna Sui What do Jerry Hall, Jessica...
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Dress Codes and Etiquette, Part 2: Diana Vreeland vs. Emily Post on Vulgarity
Emily Post (left): Photo by Philippe Halsman, 1946, National Portrait Gallery. Diana Vreeland (right): Drawing by Richard Ely, 1989, National Portrait Gallery. This weekend, I saw the documentary, The...
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James Bond’s Dapper Dinner Jackets
Sean Connery getting fitted for one of his classic suit jackets by Anthony Sinclair. Along with the requisite high-tech gadgets and gizmos, it wouldn’t be a James Bond movie without 007 sporting an...
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A History of Sequins from King Tut to the King of Pop
What do Michael Jackson, King Tut and Leonardo da Vinci have in common? A penchant for sequins. At some point between 1480 and 1482, Leonardo whipped together a sketch for a machine that, using levers...
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The Perils of Wearing Clothes
High, high heels. Courtesy of Wikicommons Last month, Chinese school uniforms made the news. Studies had shown that possibly as many as 25,000 children in Shanghai, China, were wearing mandated...
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A Refreshing Take on Fashion Television: A Q&A with L.A. Frock Stars’ Star...
The Way We Wore team, from left, Jascmeen Bush, Shelly Lyn, owner Doris Raymond, Sarah Bergman, Kyle Blackmon (c) NHNZ If your wardrobe is seriously lacking the next time you have a red carpet event...
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The History of the Flapper, Part 5: Who Was Behind the Fashions?
Ballerina Desiree Lubovska in a dress by Jean Patou. Photography by Adolf de Meyer, c. 1921. Have a look at the paintings of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger and other Cubist painters...
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For Perusing Pleasure, Zandra Rhodes’ New Online Fashion Archive
(c) Zandra Rhodes 2012. Paris, Frills and Button Flowers, Autumn/Winter 1971. If you want to lose a few hours, head over to the online fashion archive of designer Zandra Rhodes. Born in 1940 in...
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