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Bags, Tags and Automobiles
This is my favorite purse. It’s by Jerome Dreyfuss. I got it in Paris four years ago, and to replace it at the designer’s new store in SoHo today would probably cost close to $800. Although it cost a...
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COMING ATTRACTIONS: Pre-Fashion Week Webisodes
Well, helloooo! A quick glance at the blog here might lead you to believe it’s been a lazy summer here in Closettour-land, like I’ve been lolling on the waves in Montauk or on Fire Island, or...
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Suzanne Rae Yesterday
“Who wears this stuff?” is an oft-echoed question when it comes to the the looks we see on the runway. But the lovely thing about covering designers like John Patrick, Steven Alan and Karen Walker for...
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Beat Fashion Week Fatigue with Dossier!
Remember that summertime snapshot from Wednesday? Inside Lincoln Center at the Ports 1961 Show It seems like another lifetime now, after just a few days of Fashion Week. I can hardly keep up with...
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A Summer Summary
It hasn’t been the most prolific week here at Closettour. It has, however, been a busy summer, and now as the daylight hours wane, so do the dollars from my McCormick Foundation grant. Here, some...
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Open Season on Fall 2011 Fashion Week
Doesn’t it seem like Fashion Week just happened? Well, it officially starts again today. (For more on that crazy calendar, you might watch this webisode.) Through next Thursday designers will be...
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Fashion Week: Inspiration on the Runway
Left – Chard, Jenni Avins; Right – Libertine, Fall 2011, Getty Images One of my favorite things about Fashion Week is when designers share the sources of their ideas — something they do with...
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Fall 2013 Fashion Week: FURRY-MITTENED SNOWBALL FIGHT!
It seems that every season, we’re already halfway through Fashion Week before I check in here at home. So it’s probably best for now, to catch up with me at the Cut, where you can watch me try to...
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SUNO: Crop Tops, Flats, and Greta Gerwig
In case you thought Fashion Week had resigned itself to a bizarre corporate orgy of sponsor kiosks and ceaseless parties (see here, here, here, and here for the Times’ take on it) the Suno show on...
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Save Your Fashion Week Swag Bags for Foundation Onda
A couple years ago Erin Dixon, my dear friend and editor at Dossier Journal, stepped away for a moment during New York Fashion Week to attend a seminar with Safe Horizons—an organization that helps...
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