Images by Brandie Raasch
Boater hats, flapper fashion and back-beats—not to mention Bill Cunningham—brought some roaring style to last weekend’s Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island.
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Author Archives: Erin Dixon
All That Jazz
September 2, 2010 – 5:36 am
Interwoven: Vibskov & Emenius
September 1, 2010 – 6:51 am
Danish designer Henrik Vibskov’s unconventional shows in Paris are always a highlight of fashion week, a wild deviation from traditional French fashion. His collections—imbued with elements of film, music, art and per this summer’s Circular Series Section 4, “human rituals, the constructions we build, and social isolation”—bridge that ambiguous space between artistic mediums.
The [...]
The Things We Carry
August 31, 2010 – 8:41 am
Pieces from the The Museum of Bags and Purses permanent collection
Bags are intimate objects that both conceal and reveal. They tote our daily necessities and the individual effects that disclose our personalities, insecurities and plans. They are purchased out of neeed, the desire for status or the pure appreciation of design. For Hendrijke Ivo, the [...]
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
August 25, 2010 – 7:50 am
Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Style inspiration (and a great activity) for a rainy summer day.
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Gucci’s Guilty Flashback
August 23, 2010 – 6:32 am
Gucci 1996 by Mario Testino
Sometimes, seldom, a collection, image or item so perfectly embodies a cultural moment that the most appropriate descriptor is the overused “iconic.” Tom Ford’s velvet tuxedo for Gucci (F/W 1996) was one such rarity. A culmination of the designer’s tenure at the Italian house, with two traditional garments and one familiar [...]
