Interview

Here is an alphabetical Cliff Note's of what we learned on the runways in Milan.  BLOG POSTED: 07/02/09

For their guest Gap Design editions, CFDA-decorated designers reinvigorate that most staid of staples: khaki.  BLOG POSTED: 06/17/09

Billy Reid loves a good party. So last weekend the CFDA-winning designer, known for his Southern-inspired sportswear, rolled out the requisite hospitality—small-batch bourbon, shrimp and cheese grits, and his band, the Seersuckers—to celebrate the the opening of his flagship boutique in Florence, Alabama. This week, he's back in New York at his Bond Street shop to teach city slickers to grill for the seventh annual Big Apple Bar-B-Q Block Party.  BLOG POSTED: 06/12/09

The iconic letters C and G have some American-born competition from a pair of interlocking K's,  based on the signature of Katherine Fleming.  BLOG POSTED: 03/20/09

In his diary of Milan and Paris Fashion Week, Glenn O'Brien picks up where he left off, taking on second-rate hotels, and bloggers who jump to conclusions.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/10/09

Haute couture is fashion’s fine art, and Vogue’s Hamish Bowles, self-made historian, has a sort of private museum in a warehouse in Queens. Here’s how youthful obsession built a world-class collection  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/26/09

All fashion is about what’s new. or at least about what we haven’t seen in a while. It’s about novelty. New clothes are how we show on our bodies what’s happening now in the culture. It’s how we belong to history and signify change. Novelty makes us feel new, even if we’re getting on a bit. At least our ideas look fresh. Now, these six designers aren’t the new kids on the block. They’ve been around it already. But they’re all doing things that are truly new. No recession here. This gang is still exploding  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/26/09

Yesterday, GQ announced that Robert Geller won the CFDA Award for new menswear designer; it's been a big couple of days, as his presentation is proceeding right now.  BLOG POSTED: 02/13/09