Parsons has produced more fashion stars (think the Proenza Schouler guys, Jason Wu, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford) than Barney’s can stock. The school’s 2013 fashion show will be attended by big-name store buyers, magazine editors and movie stars, all on the lookout for the next big thing primed for Seventh Avenue success. Hosted by Read More
Anti-Semitism is out of style at Parsons.
Students at The New School of Design are angrily protesting the schools’ controversial new hire: designer John Galliano, the notorious deliverer of a hateful, pro-Hitler tirade in 2011.
The world-renowned design college has reportedly hired Mr. Galliano to teach a short workshop on “emotion” this May. Upon hearing Read More
Forget Project Runway—the real fashion showdown is at “Fusion,” the annual competition that pits future design superstars from Parsons against those from FIT in a runway show with only one winner and one school going home with the gold. Past Fusion contestants have included Prabal Gurung, Chris Benz and Alexander Wang. The catwalk competition includes Read More
Tony Quan, aka Tempt1, is an artist, activist and graffiti writer. In 2003 he was diagnosed with ALS, and over the last seven years he has lost the ability to move, speak or even breathe on his own. But his mind and creative spirit remained intact.
So last year the Brooklyn born Read More
New York Times perfume critic and provocateur Chandler Burr shook up an esoteric symposium at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium on Friday, March 26, with a quick flex of his critical muscles.
“I don’t like it. I want a different scent,” he told international fragrance-maker Pascal Gaurin, the man behind Arden Beauty and Tom Ford Read More
Shortly after Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs, both 24, graduated from Parsons design school, they repaired to the French bistro Felix in Soho and, over a pitcher of Caipirinhas, christened their new fashion brand: Cushnie et Ochs.
Neither woman is French—Ms. Cushnie is British, born to Jamaican parents, and Ms. Ochs Read More
The jury is still out on Art Basel Miami, which runs until Sunday. Art professional-types are continuing to deliberate whether ’09 is going to look like 1990, the last time a recession affected the look and discourse of contemporary art, peeling its sympathies for the better part of the decade. Of course, ’09 may prove Read More
