DUMBO: The New Soho
DUMBO is what Soho was in the 80s -- the new new thing -- filled with chic, artsy trendsetters who seem unaware of our bruised economy.
DUMBO is what Soho was in the 80s -- the new new thing -- filled with chic, artsy trendsetters who seem unaware of our bruised economy.
Gina Pell | Posted 11.11.2009 | Style
The brooch doesn't always have to be worn grazing the shoulder. I pin mine to a silk ribbon or velvet cord and wear it around my wrist.
Michelle Madhok | Posted 11.04.2009 | Style
Alexander Wang's Rocco bag, an embossed-leather duffel with studs all over the bottom, just became "available" for purchase on his site ... but it's already sold out.
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Style
I was lucky enough to catch the imitable high priestess of Canadian fashion, Fashion Television host Jeanne Beker, for an exclusive one-on-one chat about Toronto Fashion Week spring/summer 2010, Canadian designers and the future of fashion.
Alexandra Sinderbrand | Posted 10.23.2009 | Style
Maybe some items on the runway can be adapted to real life; I'm just not sold on the idea that a real, live woman can expose the outlines of her hoo-ha and still feel good about herself.
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Style
Friday arrived far too soon but featured some wonderfully creative creations and the Dare to Wear Love show wrapped up the week with a blowout show that proved fashion and philanthropy are just as beautiful, glamorous and meaningful as ever.
Daria Shualy | Posted 10.06.2009 | Style
As leading fashion labels have started favoring celebrities to models, younger labels are tapping into the vast pool of "real people" and using them as models.
Christy Ferer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Style
For the most part the Fortune 500 Women's Conference was a well-dressed, well-heeled crowd. Well, except for the girls from Google, in their Boyfriend Jeans and oversized shirts.
Judy Licht | Posted 09.17.2009 | Style
What do Fashion Week trends say about us? We seem to want the excess and exuberance of the 80's, with a decadent dollop of sadomasochism on the side. Draw your own conclusions.
Liz Black | Posted 09.16.2009 | Style
Yet another season of amazingly tailored, absolutely wearable pieces from Andy & Debb.
Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Some of us may put our pants on one leg at a time, but others risk a punishment of forty lashes if they dare do so. Lubna Ahmed Al Hussein knew the latter could be her fate, but she put her pants on anyway.
Jeffrey Hutchison | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style
Embracing sustainability and crafting a new face of luxury need not be at odds; by exploring ways to achieve both simultaneously, an exciting new era of of design can be borne.
Times Online | Alice Olins | Posted 09.11.2009 | Style
Just as we'd managed to convince ourselves that 7in heels were a practical footwear option, rather than the modern equivalent of Chinese foot-binding,...
Michelle Madhok | Posted 09.05.2009 | Style
If getting on the pre-order list for the $680 shooties doesn't work for you, Zoe, or Zoe's public relations manager, has provided a pair of Steve Madden alternatives.
Alexis Maybank | Posted 09.05.2009 | Style
So as a modern executive, would I exist without Twitter? Twitter makes me feel more alive to the possibilities of work and life.
Alan Au | Posted 08.28.2009 | Style
The recession is adversely affecting the entire fashion food chain. It's survival of the fittest. What survives after the recession will create a new fashion landscape and altered food chain.
Claudia Cividino | Posted 08.15.2009 | Style
Today we are buying the one important piece, and personalizing the look with something we already own... thereby making it our own.
Katie Saddlemire | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York
With the seemingly endless rain slackening a bit, summer has finally arrived. New Yorkers have shed their spring coats and are wearing what they real...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green
Home is a visual masterpiece, a compilation of incredible aerial shots that dramatize the staggering statistics of environmental degradation and peril that many of us are already fairly familiar with.
Refinery 29 | Alexandra Andrade | Posted 07.09.2009 | Style
Rumor has it that '80s movie Valley Girl is set to be remade into an on-screen musical. Though we're not sure how we feel about this breaking news, it...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.02.2009 | Style
No longer relegated to the garish masses, the saturated pink shades known as fuchsia and magenta are suddenly haute. They are cropping up in all sorts...
guardian.co.uk | Emma Sibbles | Posted 06.14.2009 | Style
It conjures images of Joan Collins at her power-dressing peak in the decade that seems synonymous with crimes against fashion -- but the shoulder pad ...
Amy Tara Koch | Posted 06.12.2009 | Style
By layering basic garments with up-to-the-minute accent pieces, fashion folk can effectively camouflage the fact that the same few garments are being "rotated" week after week.
New York Magazine | Harriet Mays Powell | Posted 06.08.2009 | Style
While you pull your frocks out of storage for -- eventually -- summer weather, retailers will soon be restocking their floors with the fall collection...
Juliette Powell | Posted 05.15.2009 | Style
The man behind the brand, Isaac Mizrahi, actually walks the walk and talks the talk of an effective social media strategy and, more importantly, he seems to be having fun while doing it.
Gina Pell | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York