Culture sets New York fashion inside the city producing it: costume exhibitions, nightlife, music, restaurants and the commercial rents pushing studios out of Manhattan. Pieces connect what appears on a runway to whatever is happening ten blocks away. Aimed at readers who follow the whole city, not one industry.
The show is the argument; the showroom is the signing. How wholesale works, what buyers do between fashion weeks, and why direct selling changed the room.
How to tell a true period piece from a later repro before the price tag tells you first.
Grants, galleries and venues do the quiet work that a city's creative reputation takes credit for.
Three shows in four days say more about where the Filipina star's profile is heading than any ranking line.
Six years after closing its Madison Avenue flagship, Calvin Klein rebuilt its New York retail presence inside a loft-style store at 530 Broadway. What the move says about SoHo's current pull on American brands.
The 'New York look' worn in Manila, Milan, and Minneapolis is produced by a supply chain as organized as any garment one — four industries, one product, exported worldwide.