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The Schmooze Inside Iris Apfel’s (Many) Closets
Age, fashion and wisdom fuel the late great filmmaker Albert Maysles’ documentary, “Iris,” a loving homage to Iris Apfel, the inimitable 94-year-old empress of style and chutzpah. Philosophically embellishing the subtext of fighting the clock while continuing to astound and surprise, Iris Apfel — in a sequence in which she is stacking so much jewelry shoulder…
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Life Bringing Holocaust Victim’s Fashion Designs Back To Life
On a freezing morning this winter a group of visitors gathered at a museum gallery in Wisconsin, surrounded by mannequins dressed in what would have been the latest fashion — if you were in the Europe of the late 1930s. At first glance it looked like the Jewish Museum Milwaukee was putting on a standard…
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Life Where High Fashion Meets Modesty
Adi Heyman At first glance, the fashion blog “Fabologie” looks no different than masses of other fashion blogs, with surveys of collections by luxury labels like Chanel, Celine and Burberry, a piece on the five best items of the season, a post on the military fashion trend and, of course, photos of women from various…
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Forward 50 2014 Tavi Gevinson
Started an acclaimed fashion blog? Check. Founded a magazine? Check. Gave a TED talk? Check. Acted alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini? Check. Hung out with Vogue’s Anna Wintour? Check. Starred in a Broadway show? Check. But celebrate her 18th birthday? That’s something Tavi Gevinson managed only this past April. At 11, Gevinson had garnered…
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Opinion Mango Shirt Slammed as Attempt at ‘Nazi Chic’
Mango’s new shirt After Sears’s swastika ring and Zara’s concentration camp shirt comes another piece of fashion that has incensed the internet: The lightning-like black symbols on the women’s shirt ‘Rayo’ by Spanish fashion company Mango look suspiciously like the runic insignia of the Nazi SS units and the youth organization Jungvolk. “Why does Mango…
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The Schmooze When Fashion Gets Political
Photo: Pascale Richard Journalist Jeanne Beker has shaped fashion as much as the designers she’s covered. As longtime host of Canada’s much-missed Fashion Television, her zingy runway reports and designer interviews aired in more than 130 countries; she still hosts a spinoff on a Canadian cable channel, and has opined on fashion for The Toronto…
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News All the Senior Ladies
Ari Seth Cohen is a man who knows how to talk to ladies — at least if they’re 65 and up. Cohen, 32, is the creator of Advanced Style, a popular style blog celebrating dapper women, and some men, in their later years. Since starting the photography blog in 2008 with the goal of capturing…
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Opinion Modesty Is the New Black
Fashion is a tricky one for feminists. There are two poles to navigate, each with deep roots in thousands of years of patriarchy, and few of us make it through uncompromised. On one side we feel the pressure to dress sexy and look attractive, and on the other, a pressure to cover-up, because it is…
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