The Right to Wear Whatever You Want
In late May after having watched the fashion show of the students graduating from DASH, the Design and Architecture Senior High School of...
Celebrate Womanhood.
Period. Full Stop. It happened all of a sudden: I missed a period. Once upon a time—okay, a very long time ago—I used to get pregnant...
A Change of Clothes
For a Sustainable and Fair World of Fashion, Art and Creativity My thoughts and ideas on Dana Thomas's book Fashionopolis: The Price of...
Simplex Madonna-Whore
Last year a NYU sophomore visiting Barcelona with her parents from Istanbul asked me if I read any Turkish novels. I answered that I only...
Thousand Layers of Pouf
On Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, by Caroline Weber News flash! She never said “Let them eat cake,” in...
A Museum of Our Own
National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) There is a very special museum in Washington DC. One that collects and exhibits works of...
Ms. Elizabeth goes to Washington
Rodarte exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) I didn’t know that there was a museum, the only one in the world,...
Flying by the seat of their Pants
On the film Thelma & Louise It caught my eye as I was walking by: A black T-shirt with the title of the film and its very memorable...
Subject Women
My thoughts on An Object of Beauty, by Steve Martin A few months back when I found myself having to drive for hours I realized I just...
Respect the Hierarchy
On Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination at the Met's Costume Institute View of the Medieval Sculptural Hall. Screenshot...