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30 Dec

Carol Horn, Sportswear Designer, Dies at 86

Carol Horn, Sportswear Designer, Dies at 86
Dressmaker Carol Horn, whose signature elongated designs and caftans caught on within the ’60s, died Thursday on the age of 86. The sportswear designer had been under hospice care at Calvary Hospital on the time of her death, in line with her cousins Suzanne Horn and fashion publicist Sally Fischer in a joint interview. Born in Brooklyn, Horn was an only child whose father worked within the housewares industry and whose elegant mother raised her to at all times put her best self forward. She bounced around to multiple schools, including the Calhoun School, Choate Rosemary Hall, Columbia University, Boston University and the Fashion Institute of Technology, amongst others. A lifelong Upper East Sider, she began designing sportswear for juniors at Bryant...
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27 Dec

Longchamp Taps Accessories Designer Stéphanie D’heygere for Capsule Collection

Longchamp Taps Accessories Designer Stéphanie D’heygere for Capsule Collection
Longchamp Taps Accessories Designer Stéphanie PARIS — Longchamp Taps Accessories Designer Stéphanie  Should you are taking a backpack or will a belt bag do for the day? Due to the unfolding collaboration between Longchamp and Paris-based Belgian accessories designer Stéphanie D’heygere, an individual won’t should select. Riffing off a 2019 foldable poncho design she made for the French brand, D’heygere has expanded Longchamp’s versatile Le Pliage tote right into a six-item capsule collection suitable for urban dwellers come rain or shine. While not every item within the six-piece line may be transformed just like the oversize tote and belt bag that each unfold into backpacks, D’heygere made sure so as to add the fun in functional. An umbrella with a strap may be slung...
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22 Dec

Why Latest York Designer Kate Hundley Has Madonna on Repeat

Why Latest York Designer Kate Hundley Has Madonna on Repeat
Kate Hundley appears to be moving into her groove. After shelving her line in 2020 to take a “COVID[-19] break,” the Latest York-based designer resurfaced for resort 2022 with a splashier tackle the Victorian-infused Americana she’s homed in on since her days working for Zac Posen and Ralph Lauren.  While that collection borrowed from Madonna’s blip of a Western glam phase within the early Aughts, the singer’s ability to reinvent herself stylistically saw Hundley plug back in for pre-fall. This time, her ‘80s new-wave sound hit the appropriate note.  Kate Hundley pre-fall 2023. “For me, music is a mood ring for underlying feelings and conflict. Roe vs. Wade was overturned the day after my last presentation, so frankly I used to be feeling somewhat...
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20 Dec

Dior to Unveil ‘Designer of Dreams’ Exhibit in Tokyo

Dior to Unveil ‘Designer of Dreams’ Exhibit in Tokyo
TOKYO — On Wednesday, the Japanese capital will grow to be the seventh city worldwide to host the “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams” exhibit when it opens on the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT). While the exhibit has made its way from Paris to cities corresponding to London, Dallas and Recent York, roughly half of what's exhibited within the Tokyo iteration shall be shown for the primary time. “For this exhibition, we discovered loads of stories,” said the curator of the exhibition, Florence Muller. “We knew that Christian Dior was the primary couturier to return to Japan, but now we have discovered amazing documents telling the story in a really detailed way, with Japanese ladies that were very instrumental to...
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