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It’s All a Blur to Them

“I’VE heard that in Australia, men are wearing tights,” Chuong Pham said. Tights for men, he acknowledged, may be extreme. But Mr. Pham, 28, an engineer in Manhattan, thought nothing of combining stalk-slim jeans with a sweatshirt pinched from his mom ...

From RUTH LA FERLA, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: American Apparel,  Amelia Earhart,  Pete Wentz,  American Idol,  Adam Lambert

Losing the Limo: New Fashion Dolls

RAPUNZEL has nothing on Avery, a 10-inch injection-molded mall princess whose flaxen hair cascades to her knees. Rapunzel might also have envied Avery’s smart wardrobe and her arsenal of styling tools, from thumb-size lip gloss to a tiny curling iron. ...

From RUTH LA FERLA, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mattel, Inc.,  Wal-Mart,  Nickelodeon Network

No Budget, No Boundaries: It’s the Real You

IT may be raining pink slips, some people hard-pressed to make the rent much less splash out on a pagoda shoulder jacket from Balmain, but Vixie Rayna seems not to be feeling the pinch. Not a month goes by in which she isn’t spending as much as $50,000 ...

From RUTH LA FERLA, The New York Times,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Second Life,  Prada,  Rolex,  Dan Jansen

Eileen Fisher’s Shifting Silhouette

IN the new Off Broadway show, “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” written by Nora and Delia Ephron, a character muses, “When you start wearing Eileen Fisher, you might as well say, ‘I give up.’ ” THE DESIGNER Eileen Fisher, at her office in Manhattan, said ...

From RUTH LA FERLA, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Delia Ephron,  Neiman Marcus

Front Row: Revisiting His Muse

TIME has been kind to Robert Lee Morris. Forty years at his jeweler’s bench, forging sinuous pieces of silver and brass, have not stemmed his steady output of globes, linked discs and undulant cuffs on which he made his reputation in the 1970s. With ...

From RUTH LA FERLA, International Herald Tribune,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Robert Lee Morris,  Donna Karan,  Neiman Marcus

The Mother of Reinvention

IN a mock interview with Coco Chanel in the August issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Karl Lagerfeld attempted to channel his muse. Asked “what inspires, you, an architect, an actress?” Chanel, a k a Mr. Lagerfeld, was quick to respond, “An actress, why not?” ...

From RUTH LA FERLA, The New York Times,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Coco Chanel,  Karl Lagerfeld,  Fontaine (musician),  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Shirley MacLaine

Stepping Out of Fashion and Into Film, Without Glancing Back

One of the most compelling personalities in the world of style has been mostly a no-show during New York Fashion Week. She is Joan Juliet Buck, a shrewd and longtime chronicler of trends, and she would not have had it any other way. A SHARP TURN I can ...

From RUTH LA FERLA, International Herald Tribune,  16 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Julia Child,  Meryl Streep,  John Huston,  Yves Saint-Laurent,  Nora Ephron

Imitate That Zipper!

MAYA YOGEV has a thing for leather her lambskin coats and jackets as malleable as wax. Her designs express a sensibility that is “on the darker side,” she acknowledged, their somber colors, cascading lapels and droopy shapes suggesting nothing so much ...

From RUTH LA FERLA, International Herald Tribune,  2 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Rick Owens,  Tom Ford,  Giorgio Armani,  Vivienne Westwood,  Rag & Bone (designer)

The recession darkens even 'chick lit': conspicuous consumption gets less attention in current titles

As marital troubles and a faltering economy hoover their bank accounts and wreck their self-esteem, these heroines — fictional sisters in sorrow — pare down, reorder their priorities and struggle to wring some form of redemption out of straightened ...

From RUTH LA FERLA NEW YORK TIMES, Greater Danbury News-Times,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: J. Mendel

Spicy Dip, Served Alfresco

CHICK-CHICK doum, (quick-quick slow), the rhythm that pulsates through any number of musical styles from hip-hop to club pop, animates zouk, a dance that originated in the French West Indies and recently found its way to Central Park. Over the years ...

From RUTH LA FERLA, The New York Times,  26 Aug 2009

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