Fashion

Recently, I re-discovered vinyl. I am a late entry — this is clear as I stalk the web for information and records. My endeavor began on Spotify where I added Yusef Lateef’s Eastern Sounds on my playlists — making sure to make the playlist accessible on and off line. Business trips have made creating music [...]

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  Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones—a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Stephen Jones, the world’s foremost hat designer—is at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) in New York City from September 15, 2011 to April 15, 2012. It is the first venue in this country. The exhibition displays more than [...]

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Strike a pose – specifically, a comfy reading position. As we ring in the New Year, iconic magazine Vogue invites us to look back on 120-years of style with their luxe coffee table archive, “Vogue: The Covers.” And just as crazy-excited “Sex and the City” Carrie Bradshaw was to tour the legendary Vogue accessories shoe [...]

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American Apparel has trumped Benetton this week for the most provocative advertising campaign. The latter is a bit more socio-politically conscious, using sexual innuendo to symbolize the worthy notion of "unhate." But the former uses sexual innuendo to symbolize SEX, which triggers all the consumer senses in the Western body and brain. So, as we [...]

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Are you a voyeur? Could you get off undressing celebrities from METALLICA TO MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI?  Dress, the second installment of D-Crit’s chapbook series, features  essays that parse the personal props and sartorial signifiers of divas, dictators and designers alike. Published by the School of Visual Arts MFA in Design Criticism (D-Crit), Dress will premiere on [...]

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Maharam is a fourth generation family-run business that was once known for making children costume patterns. It has been reinvented by each successive generation, which probably accounts for its unusual longevity in the dysfunctional realm of family business. The current director, Michael Maharam’s great-grandfather was a Russian immigrant who sold remnants, initially from a pushcart, [...]

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The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. presented its Spring 2012 Collection on Monday, October 24th at The Ace Hotel. The evening was a benefit for 826NYC and featured a collection of original and one-of-a-kind crime-fighting attire for superheroes created by various designers—Opening Ceremony, Christian Joy, Renata Morales, Chromat Garments, Matt Singer, Complex Geometries, United Bamboo, and [...]

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Beginning in the early 1890s artistic conventions -- indeed academic art everywhere -- were under attack by a kindred group of young artists who marched throughout Europe under the youthful banner of Art Nouveau. Although it was called by different names in the various nations in which it took hold – Stile Liberty in Italy, [...]

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The men in blue had to look sharp in neatly tailored uniforms that expressed authority while exuding style. "Each tailoring step is carefully checked and rechecked to insure absolute uniformity. . . ," which is a good thing when you are manufacturing and selling uniforms. "The transaction is complete only when you are entirely satisfied," [...]

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As a wee lad I was president and sole member of The Astronaut Fan Club. It was a front, actually, to obtain countless booklets, brochures, photographs and signed letters from the Mercury, Apollo and Gemini astronauts and NASA support personnel (like "Shorty" Powers, the voice of NASA). I also "stalked," as it were, X-15 pilots. [...]

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