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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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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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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.
