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Last Call for Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses at the Brooklyn Museum
More than 140 haute couture pieces, a 180 million-year-old fossil and a working atelier: the first major New York presentation of the Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen closes in Brooklyn on December 6. What to see, and how to plan your visit.
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When Queens Was the Runway: Inside MoMA PS1’s New York Fashion, 1980–1984
Before museums made fashion a blockbuster, a former public school in Long Island City pinned clothes to its walls and set them in plaster. MoMA PS1’s new exhibition revisits the stylist Hollywood Di Russo’s fashion program and the designers, from Willi Smith to Betsey Johnson, who showed there.
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Fifth and 57th: Bill Cunningham and the Invention of New York Street Style
If you have ever stopped a stranger on the sidewalk to ask where they got their coat, you have done what Bill Cunningham did for nearly four decades. The difference is that he photographed the answer, and The New York Times published it. Cunningham, who died in June 2016 at 87, spent nearly 40 years…
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Uptowns to Lafayette Street: How New York Wrote the Rules of Sneaker Style
Every city has a shoe. In New York, it has always been the sneaker, and the city did not just wear them. It named them, rapped about them, customized them and built stores around them. In 2015, the Brooklyn Museum hosted The Rise of Sneaker Culture, a touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of…
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Inside the Costume Institute: How the Met Made Fashion a Museum Art
Before the gala and the red carpet, there was a theater collection and a wartime bet on Seventh Avenue. How the Met’s Costume Institute came to be, and what is on view now.
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The Museum at FIT: New York’s Free Fashion Museum, Explained
On a Chelsea corner of Seventh Avenue sits one of the world’s specialized fashion museums, and it costs nothing to walk in. What it holds, how it works and what to see this season.
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Kente, Thread by Thread: How to Read Ghana’s Most Famous Cloth
It began, the Asante say, with a spider’s web. Kente is a royal cloth, a weaving system and a visual language. Here is how it is made, worn and named.
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How New York Became a Fashion Capital: Six Moments That Built Seventh Avenue
A fire, a museum merger, a press week, a school above a high school, a trade council and a night at Versailles. Six moments that turned a manufacturing town into a fashion capital.
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Adire: The Indigo Cloth of the Yoruba Women Who Made It
Blue and white, tied, stitched, stenciled or painted by hand, adire is one of West Africa’s great design traditions. Here is how it is made and why it still matters.
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La Sape: A Century of Congolese Elegance, from Brazzaville to Paris
Long before street style had a name, the dandies of Brazzaville and Kinshasa were turning dress into art and argument. A short history of la sape.
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A Walking History of New York’s Great Department Stores
From Herald Square to 58th Street, a self-guided walk through the stores that taught America how to shop, with the dates and stories behind each address.
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Uptown, Across the River: The Creative Talent Map of Harlem, Brooklyn and Queens
Fashion in New York is not only made in Midtown. Here is where Harlem, Brooklyn and Queens fit, from runway platforms and museums to studios and soundstages.
