By Meredith Bryan 4/29/08 4:17pm

Golly! Be a Hot Tamale in Kamali

On a recent Friday, the bathing-suit department at Bloomingdale’s on 59th Street was bustling. Pat Walsh, 54, a slim blonde administrative assistant from Staten Island, was inspecting a retro-inspired red polka-dot Anne Cole one-piece with thick straps and a bosom-enhancing sweetheart neckline for an impending trip to Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic. “I always Read More

By Nicole Brydson 2/05/08 1:08pm

Retro Rules at Betsey Johnson, Though, Thank God, No Poufs

“I’m a very lucky man, I get to sit with Tyra quite regularly,” British photographer and America’s Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker told the Transom, referring to divalicious ANTM hostess Tyra Banks, after Betsey Johnson celebrated 30 years in fashion at Bryant Park on Monday. “That’s another thing that puts a smile on my Read More

By Alexandra Jacobs 4/26/04 12:00am

‘Those Damned Stripes!’: Frocks for Mrs. Prufrock

In a city where grown women walk around in broad daylight with pink hearts and jaunty little mottoes stenciled across the backseat of their sweat pants, the designer Corey Lynn Calter is a beacon of hope and tailoring. Los Angeles Fashion Week continues to be something of an oxymoron, with labels like “2 B Free” Read More

By Simon Doonan 2/26/01 12:00am

Among Fashion Week Ruins There’s Still Oscar, Betsey

Fall Fashion Week was a grim and violent affair. Betsey Johnson’s Technicolor pixies, Anna Sui’s mod slags, Michael Kors’ Hermès-y snots–these were but brief amuses-bouches in a long and Lord of the Flies kind of a week.

On Valentine’s Day, at approximately 9:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian National Home on Second Avenue, white-trash models toting Read More