The TeenVogue Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to Careers in Fashion offers advice and real-life success stories about breaking into the fashion industry. “I hope for kids that they will just be totally inspired by the stories of these people making careers out of nothing in a way,” said TeenVogue editor Amy Astley at a party Read More
Thakoon’s most famous client, First Lady Michelle Obama, didn’t shut down any avenues to make an appearance at his Monday afternoon show at Eyebeam. But the packed house made it look as if she had.
Many in the standing-room-only crowd nodded appreciatively at the Thai-born, Omaha-raised designer’s draped fabrics and eye-popping prints, worn by Read More
Last Thursday, the designer Phillip Lim and his good friend Amanda Cutter Brooks, the socialite and former creative director of Tuleh, hosted a Michael Jackson dance party at Collective Hardware on the Lower East Side. Aside from a brief mention in Vogue‘s William Norwich‘s blog, there was practically no preliminary press about Read More
At around 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 18, a procession of women in billowing gowns was making its way in the courtyard of the Metropolitan Opera House for the American Ballet’s spring gala.
“I cannot wait to see Michelle Obama!” said the fit morning-talk-show host Kelly Ripa, adding that she was wearing fake eyelashes for Read More
Tuleh’s sunny creative director loves getting dressed! Our Ms. Brooks! Socialite, supermom and new fashion pioneer
Amanda Brooks, 29, formerly the muse of the beloved society clothing line Tuleh, has schmoozed or oozed her way into the position of its creative director, without any formal fashion training. It’s a sweet three-day-per-week gig whose responsibilities include Read More
