Teresa Wiltz

In a royal salute, Chicago's economically unimpaired donned new gowns, got coiffed, flashed diamonds and even hoofed on a dance floor Wednesday night, though comedian Joan Rivers, in a tight...

Fashion insiders--the folks behind the pictures in Vogue, Glamor, et al.--will tell that you it's an "aspirational" thing. Skinny models, that is. Slender, bodacious models sell clothes. Fashion is fantasy,...

We know you already know this, but it bears repeating: You do get what you pay for. There are the shameless few who hike up their prices while they drive...

Maybe Madonna's to blame. Not so long ago, the cross-dressers, shoe freaks, "tight-lacing" corset lovers, leather ladies and underwear bandits skulked about the fringes of society, hiding their fashion fetishes...

These days it's really hip to wear white shoes way past Labor Day-not to mention adorning oneself in velvet, satin and lace any old time of the day or year....

Several weeks ago, amazed and dismayed by the preponderence of skinny blonds on the runway--one designer said "dusky skin" wasn't in--I posed a question: "Is it unrealistic to expect to...

Think about your she-roes. They weren't exactly fashion victims, were they? Think about the perennially pantsuit-wearing novelist George Sand-you never caught her wearing merely trendy fare. Or Katharine Hepburn, in...

A couple of weeks ago, frustrated with the "blond collections" at the New York fashion shows, I posed a question: "Is it unrealistic for us to expect to see our...

As we face the millennium, designers seem to be stuck in the past, content to replay riffs from yesterday's closets. Rewind a couple of decades to the '70s, a time...

Of late, designers have opted for the slow burn, content to let trends simmer for a few seasons before jolting fashion fans with a brand new dish. So you won't...