By Drew Grant 4/23 5:10pm

Fashion

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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 Benjamin-Emile Le Hay and Drew Grant 12/21/12 5:00pm

Deluxe Gifts for Me! Me! Me!

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Burberry's Britain Diamond-encrusted watch, $4,995

Lavish Self-Gifting for Ungenerous Grinchy Urbanites

Screw gift-giving to others. This season should be all about you! Treat yourself to something extraordinary that, naturally, you’d never consider budgeting for to give to anyone else. Don’t dwell on the stigma of selfishness–you deserve a reward! Sixty-hour work weeks with dreadful colleagues that collide headfirst into a binge of holiday family time; menacing 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 Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/03/12 11:28am

Oh No He Didn't

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Designer Hedi Slimane Punches Back at Times Fashion Critic Cathy Horyn

There’s a simmering fashion feud percolating between New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn and Hedi Slimane, the designer who has taken over Yves Saint Laurent and is widely credited with Dior Homme’s skinny silhouette. The beef led to Ms. Horyn not being invited to the YSL show, which didn’t stop her from reviewing it in The New York Times on the Runway blog using publicly available photos. Needless to say, her take wasn’t overwhelmingly positive.

“I was not invited. Despite positive reviews of his early YSL and Dior collections, as well as a profile, Mr. Slimane objected bitterly to a review I wrote in 2004—not about him but Raf Simons,” wrote Ms. Horyn.

As best we can tell, the deliberate non-invitation was a result of Ms. Horyn’s doubts about the origins of the skinny-silhouetted suit. Read More

By Drew Grant 9/06/12 2:15pm

Fashion's Night Out 2012

Kim Kardashian expect at FNO (Getty Images)

Five Celebrities to Expect at Fashion’s Night Out 2012

It’s already time for Fashion Week again? How did that happen? And not just Fashion Week, but the one that includes New York’s annual Fashion’s Night Out event. This evening marks the third-most important night of the year for Anna Wintour (besides the Met gala and whenever the president is in town), and we’re looking forward to all the celebrity sightings that are sure to occur. Here are our five best guesses of A-list names to appear tonight. Read More

By Drew Grant 7/30/12 6:21pm

Sex and Fashion

Marc New York's "Fifty Shades of Grey"-inspired ad (Marc)

Marc New York’s Extremely Subtle 50 Shades of Grey Ad Campaign

In the beginning, there was only darkness, and the lord said “Let There Be Twilight.” And it was good. (Well, not really.) On the second day, the Lord said “Let Twilight beget erotic fan fiction,” and lo, 50 Shades of Grey was taken from the spine of Stephenie Meyer’s Mormon vampire book. On the third day, the lord populated the earth with children of Grey: the book parodies, the sex toys, the male escort services. Read More