When you want to let them know before you're coming or going. Say it in red. As in bold. As in bright. As in making a statement. Red, that bodacious...
He didn't know what Pret-a-Porter meant. Didn't care, either. And he had a hangover. So on that fateful day in Paris in 1984, when filmmaker Robert Altman witnessed his first...
Black tie. For those not housing a burgeoning collection of beaded ballgowns, those two little words appearing on any invitation this season are enough to cause heart palpitations and a...
There's fetish. There's fashion. And then there's Mick Levine and Brenda McMahon, Chicago's premier purveyors of fashion-forward fetishism. As in latex. Leather. Chain mail. Pain. You get the picture. Their...
Pick a decade, any decade. You'll find it represented again and again this spring in the clothes you may or may not choose to put on your back. Overseas, designers...
Dreaming of a politically correct Christmas? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, those publicity piranhas, are ready with a plethora of cruelty-free shopping ideas designed to keep you guilt-free-and,...
She always wears black. Including her eyeshadow-which is smudged on her upper and lower lids. Calls Paris her home. Was dubbed one of the 10 most elegant women in the...
Everything old is new again. And again. And again. It's inevitable. Hold on to something long enough, and it'll be back in fashion in the blink of a nanosecond. For...
Wear a Todd Oldham design and you will, to put it mildly, stand out in a crowd. Plaid evening gowns. Form-fitting glamor-girl dresses. Patterns piled onto patterns. Riotous clashes of...