Sending Out an S.O.S.

There’s a story I tell my sons to remind them that, despite much evidence to the contrary, humans have the capacity to be amazingly kind. The story takes place in 1988, when I was in college and on a summer trip with my family to Alaska. One afternoon, my sister Beryl and I rented a…

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The Most Dressed: Striking a Pose

What happens when fashion week collides with the Armory Show and the fall art season? Lots of parties, of course. Three big museum openings took place on Sept. 8, including the Wolfgang Tillmans retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Nearby, the Museum of Arts and Design celebrated the costume designer Machine Dazzle; the bohemian…

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The State of New York Fashion

It was the weekend of New York Fashion Week, and it was raining on Tommy Hilfiger’s runway parade. The designer had come back to his home base with his signature see now/buy now preppy cosplay after a few years away and with a special “Tommy Factory” extravaganza modeled on Andy Warhol’s Factory. (The two men…

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