Fashion

Pop icon and famed fashion designer Richie Rich returned to the runway for New York Fashion Week, debuting his new label: Richerette. The show was held at the BKLYN Studios at City Point and featured Rich’s Fall Winter 2023 collection, sporting the appropriate appellation FUN. And indeed the show was a lot of fun, with a cornucopia of colourful selections in garments and sneakers. The sneakers were from the stylish Skechers Uno line and each…

The Reverent Irreverent Does the Master Proud in Spectacular Paris Fashion Show on July 7, 2022 As a long-time lover of art and fashion, I recall with delight a magnificent Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective exhibition I attended at Stockholm’s Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in 2013. This show, with its talking mannikins, cone bras, and utterly vanguard designs, placed me in a realm of imagination without boundaries. I was witnessing an absolute master of…

Growing up in Queens, New York, Iris Apfel was an only child, so her parents often brought her to family events where she was the only kid. Many of those were at her paternal grandparents’ home in Brooklyn, New York. To entertain Apfel, her grandmother let her play with fabric scraps, which she had in large quantities because her four daughters often sewed for charity. “She opened one bag, and then another, and what I…