Tag: fashion

  • Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out – book review

    On Inauguration Day, First Lady Michelle Obama made a radical break from tradition, forsaking the typical red or blue ensembles favored by her predecessors. Instead, she wore a golden yellow wool lace coat and dress designed by Isabel Toledo. The…

  • Fashion in Colors

    Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York 9 December 2005-26 March 2006 Costume is usually viewed through a frame of fashion: a piece of clothing is set against its context in chronology, trend and social ambience under normal circumstances of speculation.…

  • Giorgio Armani: a retrospective

    Burlington Gardens, The Royal Academy of Arts, London. 18 October 2003 – 15 February 2004

  • Guy Bourdin at the V&A. Fashion photography as art

    In the 1970s, fashion seemed to be at its lowest ebb. The 60s, when London was the style capital of the world, had passed; yet to come were the 80s and 90s when fashion would replace radical politics and rock…