wednesday · september 8
Perry Ellis, noon
A moist 73 degrees; 92 percent humidity. Those not able to afford the de rigueur Japanese hair-straightening were desperately smoothing down that morning’s blowout.
There was no runway, just girls standing patiently under the lights, looking dangerously young, with small pouty faces and dark-rimmed glassy Read More
What’s coming between women and their Calvins, Donnas and Ralphs? A big fat pincushion. In an age of global brands, when the windows of Madison Avenue increasingly mirror those on Rodeo Drive and Avenue Montaigne, personally tailored clothes-or “custom,” as it is known, as if Edith Wharton had suddenly wandered into Starbucks-are becoming the quiet Read More
The day before his 24th birthday, a prime concern for Matt Damhave was that people never perceive him as a fashion designer. Which might sound odd coming from the former co-producer of Imitation of Christ, a New York–based fashion label that embellishes vintage clothes for resale, and for which he and his creative partner, actress Read More
During the Off-Broadway glam-rock musical hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch , the main
character Hedwig Schmidt may have had a rough life-as a German man who, as a
result of a botched sex-change operation, was left with a “one-inch mound of
flesh where my penis used to be” and whose former lover is now Read More
