Interview

At Raf Simons, the suits were high-tech classic and super-fan Kanye West modeled his new kicks.  BLOG POSTED: 01/26/09

Noted photographer Kate Simon was part of Stephen Sprouse's inner circle. Concluding this week in which all the world was aglow (or a DayGlo, rather) for Sprouse, she remembers the good old days.  BLOG POSTED: 01/16/09

The ghosts of Stephen Sprouse were everywhere last night—on walls, on pedestals, and certainly on the minds of downtown partygoers—as Louis  BLOG POSTED: 01/09/09

A frenzy of activity in honor of Stephen Sprouse has taken the country by storm—there's a retrospective at Deitch and Marc Jacobs' line for Louis Vuitton, and a forthcoming book on the way. Sprouse was interviewed three times between 1984 and 1990; he also contributed as an interviewer and photographer until his death in 2004. As flexible in print as he was in life: Sprouse was not only a celebrated designer, but an artist and musician, collaborator and friend.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/08/09

He may consider knitwear to be his trademark-that's what Louis Vuitton hired him to do-but it's galactic prints that are getting all the attention  BLOG POSTED: 12/02/08

Marc Jacobs is a fashion designer who's changing the meaning of that job. He does what an ordinary superdesigner does, i.e., create fashion-changing clothes for his own labels and for a great French house, but he also does so much more.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

Rei KAWAKUBO The iconic Japanese designer and founder of Comme des Garçons says that she works in fashion and not art. But, over the years-with collections like that of the infamous "bumps" for 1997 to the black vinyl dymaxion-like collage dresses for Spring/Summer 2009-she has systematically reimagined the human form. Once Kawakubo's renunciation of the artist's role might have been seen as modesty, but today it's almost a rejection of limitation.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08