Sorry the pics are not great — I did my best… The review: This morn­ing I attended the press pre­view for the open­ing of a new exhi­bi­tion at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York enti­tled Read My Pins. At the cen­ter of the instal­la­tion is our nation’s first woman Sec­re­tary of State, Madeleine […]

Sarah Mower’s review of Bot­tega Veneta’s Spring 2010 run­way on Style.com quotes Tomas Maier, the label’s designer, as say­ing, “‘I think of it as a col­lab­o­ra­tion with women. The clothes are meant to be a back­drop, a blank can­vas, so the wearer can play with color and acces­sories to change the look and make it […]

It is a well-known fact that Miuc­cia Prada loves jew­elry and owns a fine col­lec­tion of antique and vin­tage pieces. For her Spring 2010 run­way she’s taken the idea of orna­ment quite lit­er­ally to the clothes them­selves. It would seem that the con­cept bor­rows unabashedly from the ques­tion, “Hav­ing a lit­tle tea with your sugar?” Highlights […]

Scene: Door bursts open and wind sweeps into the room. An out of breath woman enters with glasses on top of her head, car­ry­ing a stack of books and mag­a­zines while try­ing to bal­ance a cup of tea with­out spilling it. She drops every­thing, except the tea, on the sofa and col­lapses into an Aeron […]

Social media is the new black and with it comes some­one new to fol­low on Twit­ter: LuxArtRocks. You might rec­og­nize the logo but the cul­tur­ally well-informed tweeter will remain anony­mous this time around. Why? Because here you will find up-to-the-minute infor­ma­tion on all things bright, beau­ti­ful, boun­ti­ful, and a lit­tle bit brag­gado­cio too. There will […]

To begin, there was no run­ning fash­ion nar­ra­tive, save for the far too evi­dent ban­gle, rein­vented in only a few clever forms and, heaven help us, seen on nearly every run­way. Despite this yawn­ing thread, the jew­elry con­cepts were designer-specific — each vary­ing per­spec­tive con­tributed to cre­at­ing a vir­tual how-to-dress-with-jewelry hand­book. 3.1 Philip Lim, Doo.Ri, […]

My story about the Car­men Marc Valvo show is posted on the first page of iFash­ion Net­work. Just one note, some­one at the web­site mis­la­beled the cap­tion that appears below my story and I am try­ing to have it cor­rected. It should read: Khaki suede safari jacket Ivory satin chif­fon racer back tank top Gunmetal […]

Vic­to­ria Bartlett’s clothes were lovely but the neck­laces weren’t. Strange, asym­met­ri­cally ori­ented and artsy — if so. They didn’t cut it. The dress above was paired with an orna­ment that so closely resem­bled kiel­basa, a pop­u­lar Pol­ish sausage, that you’d be have to be care­ful not to leave it around the kitchen at din­ner time. […]

I wait patiently. And then the flood gates of Fash­ion Week open, the images released on Style.com, and as always, there is a glim­mer of hope. It is the same feel­ing I get just before open­ing a small, neatly wrapped pack­age. The antic­i­pa­tion is the best part, only occa­sion­ally is the reveal even bet­ter. The […]

Art Nou­veau artisan-designers René Lalique and Louis Com­fort Tiffany may have pre­saged the images we would see through the far reach­ing and focused lens of the Hub­ble Tele­scope, but in truth, nature is omnipresent. The Sci­ence sec­tion of New York Times today posted breath­tak­ing images from the new Wide Field Cam­era 3 that is aboard […]