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SPECIAL Occasion Dresses
Friday, April 6th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
Get out your wallets, ladies, these are special event dresses: weddings, anniversaries, benefits, I-really-want-to-make-a-splash apparel. None, I repeat, none are minis. Most are at the
Trendspotting: Lace
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes. Mary Wilson Little Girlish or sexy, it’s always feminine: a
Wardrobe By Generation: Dressing In Your Forties
Friday, February 10th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
Once upon a time, it was possible to almost discern a woman’s age by the way she dressed, made-up and did her hair. Now that
Wardrobe By Generation: Dressing In Your Twenties
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
Once upon a time, it was possible to almost discern a woman’s age by the way she dressed, made-up and did her hair. Now that
Think Pink!
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
Think pink! think pink! when you shop for summer clothes. ?Think pink! think pink! if you want that quel-que chose. Funny Face – George and
FIT Couture Council Summer Party Was a HIT
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
by Gina Tron on Shopping Around
I attended the annual Summer Party at the Boathouse in Central Park this past Wednesday hosted by The Couture Council of the Museum at FIT.
Gioia Bags—Functional Art
Monday, July 25th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
Joy Liotta Horvath learned to sew from her mother and to upholster from her father. She’s restored antique leather fire buckets for collectors, antique French
Sandi Miller Burrows, A True Artisan
Friday, May 20th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1652,) today considered one of the most accomplished painters of her generation, was, against all odds, the first female painter to be admitted
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