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By Drew Grant 4/23 5:10pm

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Is This New York’s Most Unfortunately Named Boutique?

Coming straight from your most repressed memories of that time you got your foot caught in a bicycle spoke when you were eight, NoLita’s hottest new store is Skingraft. That’s right…Skingraft. Oh, you haven’t heard of Skingraft? (And now that you have, wish that you hadn’t?) Well, let us tell you about it.

The opening of Skingraft will fill the hole in Manhattan’s retail market left after the recession closed such other cutting edge concept stores as meTa stasiZed, the Wart-eria and last year’s Po(ly)p Pop-Up. Read More

By Drew Grant 4/22 1:28pm

Fashion

Diahann Billings-Burford, Kenneth Cole, Peter Vallone and John Liu (Getty Images)

Shoe Designers and Politicos Lend the City a Helping Foot

This morning on the cold, bright steps of City Hall, several photographers huddled, shivering, waiting for the Two Ten Footwear Foundation conference to begin. The charitable foundation of the U.S. footwear industry was gathered to kick off Two Ten’s Footwear Cares National Footwear Community Service Week (whoof, what a title) in New York, where 14 shoe companies would be dedicating their time and resources to packing meals for the New York Food NYC, God’s Love We Deliver, GrowNYC, and the Occupy Sandy Recovery group.

A smattering of unlikely bedfellows trickled in: Kenneth Cole, Katie Butler of Nine West, two mayoral candidates–Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Comptroller John Liu–former Council speaker Peter Vallone, City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, along with several other representatitves from the fashionable footwear industry. Read More

By Drew Grant 4/17 10:45am

Fashion

Exclusive Punk-inspired collection from Moda Operandi.

Update: Moda Operandi, Punk Participants of the Met’s Costume Exhibit, to Sell Couture Chaos in Time for Gala

Already have your invitation to the 2013 Costume Institute’s Benefit, but can’t figure out how to turn your epic ballgowns from years prior to fit this year’s theme of “Punk”? No worries, digital luxury retailer Moda Operandi has your back: Starting on May 2nd, the site will be selling 100 one-of-a-kind, punk-inspired clothes and accoutrements from famed fashion houses.

Problem solved! Now you just have to figure out which designer you are pretending brought you to the event. Read More

By Jennifer Ashley Wright 4/08 9:16am

Fashion

Lilly Pulitzer in her first shop off Via Mizner in Palm Beach in 1962 (Photographed by Howell Conant)Lilly in her first shop off Via Mizner in Palm Beach in 1962 (Photographed by Howell Conant)

Fondly Remembering Paisley Powerhouse Lilly Pulitzer

I was shocked to hear that Lilly Pulitzer died on Sunday, the start of a week that also claimed Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funicello. Not because Ms. Pulitzer was so young—she was 81—but because I never quite thought of her as real. That’s not to say I didn’t think of her. For a long time, Read More

By Drew Grant 12/11/12 4:42pm

Fashion

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How Is THIS the Ugliest Sweater in All of New York?

We’ve seen some ugly sweaters in our time. We’ve also seen some ugly sweaters on the Internet, specifically on the Tumblr dedicated to ugly sweaters. There are some very heinous wool knits in this world, and we just can’t pretend they don’t exist just because they aren’t pretty.

So when The Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership held a contest this afternoon to find the “ugliest holiday sweater in New York,” we were like, “Finally, some awareness brought to this issue!”

Except that New Yorkers are horrible at finding clothes that are unflattering, apparently, because take a look at this year’s winner: Read More

By Drew Grant 6/12/12 4:18pm

Fashion

H&M gets the Maison Martin Margiela treatment!

What’s That Jacket, H&M?: Martin Margiela Plans Ready-Wear Apparel

In Kanye West’s infamous “Ni**as In Paris,” (made more infamous by Gwyneth Paltrow’s tweetroversy) there is a line that goes “What’s That Jacket, Margiela?”

Surprisingly, Margiela is not  the name of some pretty girl, or even a French slang term for “pretty girl” (as some may originally have guessed), but the name of a Belgium designer Martin Margiela. Mr. Margiela is known for making some pretty weird stuff… at exorbitant prices.

And pretty soon, you’ll be able to stand in line for days for a chance to buy cheaper versions of these designs at H&M! Yes…the latest big-name (or at least, expensive-named) designer to collaborate with a clothing outlet is none other than Kanye West’s favorite: Martin Margiela! Read More