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...tailors who also make custom clothing in their shops, the alteration game is a savior. Joyce Hittesdorf, president of the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals, who runs her own small business in Carmel, Ind., has picked up about eight new clients over the past month. "They were all looking to salvage what they had," she says. "Alterations were the secondary part of our business. Now they're more primary." At Imparali Custom Tailors in New York City, new custom-suit sales fell about 20% in 2008, while revenues from fix-up jobs jumped 30%. Matt Harpalani, the shop...
...season. The stuff we sell is timeless. It's not really fashion in that sense. It's clothes that feel really good that you can wear anywhere and for the rest of your life. A percentage of all the sales go to the Urban Zen foundation. (See Style & Design...
...Tully Hall, which shares space with the Lincoln Center Film Society, the Juilliard School of Music and the School of American Ballet, spent the past 40 years locked inside a squat stretch of travertine that would have been perfect for an FBI fingerprint lab. Completed in 1969 in the design idiom called Brutalism, it ran more than half the length of a city block with hardly a grace note or welcoming gesture. To make matters worse, a heavy pedestrian bridge that connected it to the main Lincoln Center campus, across 65th Street, cast a broad swath of that street into...
...pictures of the 2008 Design...
...after my first two years at medical school, Dr. Willem Kolff, who died Feb. 11 at 97, hired me to work on the artificial-heart project at the University of Utah. On my first day, he instructed me to create a new heart design that would keep an animal alive longer than any earlier models...