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...thousands of dollars. Ready-to-wear clothing, on the other hand, is manufactured in all sizes and available for retail purchase.A strength of the exhibit overall is the fashion show footage playing alongside each designer’s collection. Seeing the clothes in front of you move down the runway is a nice addition to the exhibit, even it is sometimes more engrossing than the clothes themselves. The most cutting-edge of all the designers featured in the exhibit are Martin Margiela and Jenny Meirens, the Belgian design team behind the label Mason Martin Margiela.Their “artisanal?...
...style savvy may be a pincushion and a pair of pinking shears. Once relegated to little old ladies, the frugal-minded and neohippie handicrafters, sewing your own clothes is back in vogue. Inspired by the desire for a unique look and by reality-TV shows like Project Runway, in which aspiring designers compete for an entre into the established fashion world, more young people are trying their hand at this traditional domestic art. The Home Sewing Association estimates that there are about 35 million sewing hobbyists in the U.S., up from roughly 30 million in 2000, and annual sales...
...company have already assembled about three-quarters of the content for the first issue and are preparing for their second.The idea for the magazine surfaced nearly two years ago, when Matthews was a summer intern in public relations at Bravo Television, working primarily on “Project Runway,” a reality competition show for fashion designers.Having grown up an hour and a half outside New York, Matthews had already cultivated a deep love of the city’s nooks and crannies, and saw the potential in bringing the “Project Runway” approach...
Legend has it that the Ramones spent about $6,000 recording this debut, which leads to an obvious question: Where'd all the money go? On the original, these 14 tracks sound as if they were mixed on a runway at LaGuardia, but the playing is impressively clean, given its speed (no song lasts longer than 2:40). Joey's singing also proves you don't need range to sound exuberant...
Despite some of those more contentious dealings, Tahari describes himself as a shy, spiritual man (he practices feng shui and follows the teachings of philosopher Eric Butterworth). You won't see him taking a bow on the runway or featuring his homes in magazines (although he could: he recently bought News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch's 9,300-sq.-ft. SoHo triplex for a reported $25 million). "My life is my work and vice versa," he says. "I told my wife that when we got married, she had to be involved with my work or we couldn't be together...