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...prices, which range from $400 to $700 for a dress, hardly suit the typical college student’s budget, but the beautiful craftsmanship—each garment takes a team of seamstresses and tailors 12 hours to make—is winning over many of the girls at today’s trunk show...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Manufacturing Desire | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

Before he was an amateur fashion designer, Travis R. Wood ’07 was a skater. “I usually dressed in a skater-brand sweatshirt and jeans,” says Wood, sporting painted jeans and an inside-out Garment District sweater. “My father looked at me one day and told me that I looked like everyone else.” Realizing that his father was right, Wood was inspired during his gap year in China to start making his own clothes with the fabrics he found there. Wood is one of a group...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thinking Outside the Bubble | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...imaginable, a talking Fulla doll might exclaim, as the Oct. 13 Salient’s parody advertisement imagined it, “I like shopping!” Yet, before going to the bazaar, perhaps Fulla, unlike Barbie, would have to seek out her misplaced abaya, the full-length garment that her culture and her religion require her to wear while outdoors.The Salient parody imagines a great deal. And so, when our imagined Fulla speaks, the greater subservience shown by Muslim wives to their husbands manifests itself in the acquiescent statement, “Yes, Husband...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Inventing Outrage | 10/21/2005 | See Source »

...that perfect Pucci dress? You could either resign yourself to wearing contemporary clothing, or contact Palette London, a sleek boutique based in fashionable Islington. Palette offers a "finder service" for shoppers from all over the world; owner Mark Ellis boasts that he can track down just about any vintage garment or accessory. Supply Ellis with your measurements and the details of the '60s Ossie Clark trouser suit or turn-of-the-century silk kimono you're after, and he'll comb his network of 50 vintage dealerships across the globe. Once he's found the garment?which can take from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fine Vintage | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...that perfect Pucci dress? You could either resign yourself to wearing contemporary clothing, or contact Palette London, a sleek boutique based in fashionable Islington. Palette offers a "finder service" for shoppers from all over the world; owner Mark Ellis boasts that he can track down just about any vintage garment or accessory. Supply Ellis with your measurements and the details of the '60s Ossie Clark trouser suit or turn-of-the-century silk kimono you're after, and he'll comb his network of 50 vintage dealerships across the globe. Once he's found the garment - which can take from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fine Vintage | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

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