Skirts and Dresses

New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013: Relaxing in Style With Steven Alan; Wes Gordon's Party-Girl Harem

Steven Alan has always been the man to go to for an expertly made button-down (see our Best of New York issue for Best Shirts to Steal From Your Boyfriend) and an unexpected take on everyday basics. Over the last 10 years, he's launched numerous stores in the city and California and has a cult follo ... More >>

New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013: Drew Barrymore Hits Rag & Bone; Tess Giberson's Must-Have Leggings; Bono Spotted at EDUN; Creatures of the Wind Bring Candy; Blonde Redhead Play at Rachel Comey

When we arrived for check-in at rag & bone on Friday night, the woman behind the table asked, "Are your hands cold?" "How could you tell?" we said as we shook a layer of heavy snow from our hat. And that was when she gave us a black squishy thing. Yes, it was a hand warmer. Call us easy, but we w ... More >>

TWIGGY'S CLOSET

Stylish looks from the ’60s that won’t break the bank

The Ash Girl

New York Fashion Week Fall 2012: Anna Sui Dresses the Sophisticated Bookworm; Karen Elson Brings Her Daughter

Has Anna Sui been hanging out at Paris Review parties? This was the thought that immediately crossed our minds when out walked the model with the big glasses, blue cardigan, plaid skirt, and perfectly geeked-out cuckoo-clock print blouse. And then, just to make sure we got the point, Sui showed a ge ... More >>

Woman Purchases World's Cheapest Wedding Dress, Might Give It to You

​As a teenager we used to play this game at the mall called "ugly dress up," in which we dressed up in the most hideous clothing we could find, which was pretty easy, given that we were at a suburban mall and it was the '90s. This is only to say that we fully understand the adult woman who goe ... More >>

East Village 'Will You Marry Me?' Mural: The Time Lapse Video

Over the weekend we had a chat with Jeff Gurwin, the guy behind the sweet East Village engagement mural on 2nd and Avenue A. Here's a time lapse of the making of the mural (with some shots of Jeff, in the plaid shirt, and his fiancée Caitlin, in the yellow skirt). Congrats, guys! The mural will be ... More >>

Fashion Week: Naeem Khan Overestimates the Simplicity of Women

Sharyn JacksonNo, models don't like high heels either​Last night I made my first visit backstage at a fashion show, and I learned a few things about models: it takes at around four people to dress one in about 10 seconds; as suspected, their feet do actually hurt in those shoes; and they can r ... More >>

Fashion Week: Donald Trump Storms Back to Michael Kors, Anna Sui Channels Prohibition

All photos by Stacey Anderson​Donald Trump took a break from his burgeoning mosque empire to drop by Michael Kors' presentation on Wednesday--and though his old limelight nemesis Anna Wintour was also in attendance, the runway was free of bloodshed. Trump did bray about God-knows-what in close ... More >>

Fashion Week: Vena Cava, Cushnie et Ochs, and Rag & Bone Hope You're in Good Shape

David WentworthCushnie et Ochs​ Attending the spring collections is always like a good, stern reminder not to go overboard on the holiday cookies. It's virtually impossible not to see a collection without some bare stomachs or bare breasts or bare backsides, and we got to see all three at Vena ... More >>

Material Hurl: Our Top 10 Issues with Madonna and Lourdes' New Clothing Line

​Yesterday, in a maelstrom of glitter and Pixie Stix, Herald Square unveiled Material Girl, their new, tween-oriented in-house fashion line. Their collaborators: Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes. The face of the brand: panda-eyed Gossip Girl actress and the Pretty Reckless singer Taylor Momse ... More >>

Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker?

Debrahlee Lorenzana says her no-account bosses fired her over her looks

Spring Guide: Shopping With Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos

Band of Outsiders Bundle Up; Deola Sagoe Shines at Arise Magazine African Collective

Discussed: Band of Outsiders, Arise Magazine African Collective David Wentworth​An arctic wind whipped down West 15th St., chilling the crowd huddled outside Milk Studios for the Band of Outsiders installation--and inside, the atmosphere was similarly icy. Designer Scott Sternberg, known for ... More >>

Fashion Week in Review: Carlos Miele, Jill Stuart, Tracy Reese, Erin Fetherston

​ From the Jill Stuart show. Photo by Graham Rayman. What makes the fashion industry such an elitist, exclusory world? Vogue's Anna Wintour attempted to explain it in the moderately sympathetic new documentary The September Issue; she insisted, with clipped British finality, that the unstyli ... More >>

RAH! RAH! RAH!

Jack Heifner’s Vanities

GARDEN STATE

Martha Stewart, look out!

The Blogroll Gazette--Restaurant Girl on The Chopping Block & The Phil Ward Tequila Trip Continues

This week in blogs... Eat Me Daily took a break from its break to react to Danyelle Freeman (aka Restaurant Girl's) appearance on The Chopping Block. Apparently, she showed up "wearing at first a ridiculously situation-inappropriate strapless cocktail dress, and then a ridiculously situation-inappr ... More >>

Prepping for Fashion Week 2008

The usual heels, but knock off the complaining

Earnest Sewn Sample Sale: Everything $75 and Under

Sale: Morgan Le Fay

Tim Gunn Back in the Closet (Hehe)

Skirting the Issues

Will Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama in the clothes horse race?

New Preppy Pirate Attire

On Sale: Lumberjack Geisha Look

Sale Away: When $600 Off Isn't Enough

Not Dressing Like a Sherpa

New boutique hopes to revamp eco fashion's dowdy image

Barneys and Beyond

An end-of-the-summer sales roundup

Fashion High

Teens on the runway

Cracking the Code

How to dress like a schoolboy—for less

Hide-and-Seek

Aping Gwen Stefani’s style—or what to smuggle in your big, fall pants

Cheap High: The Reign of H&M

Fashion Weak

The search for cool, beyond Bryant Park

Plus ça Change

Designing Women: Chanel and Schiaparelli at F.I.T., Karan and Sui in Soho

Recovered Memories

Spring '04 on the Cheap

Bohos in Paradise

Shopping on Avenue B

Bargain Hunting at the 'B's

Sale Time at Bloomie's, Bendel's, Barneys, and BG

Gown With Love

Nuptial-Worthy Outfits on the Cheap

Fashion Forward

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

Date Clothes

What I Wore to Get the Guy/Girl

Let Us Now Praise Cheaper Clothes

H&M on Fifth

Market Driven

Finding fashion at the fleas

Euripidames

Euripidames

Clash of the Titans

Mr. Blass and Mr. Beene

Soho Resurgent

Stores and rumors of stores