Le Smoking

Yesterday, the Supreme Court deemed the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. What a way to set off the weekend’s Pride celebrations! With the fanfare, comes the fashion, an open playground for redefinition, expression and outlandish style. There’s sure to be rainbow regalia, wigs, glitter, leather, heels and muscle tees galore. It prompted me to think about high fashion’s relationship to queer style. To outsiders, it seems fashion’s kings are gay male designers, the fabulous creators of straight female threads. I started to wonder about labels and designers outside of this well-known dichotomy.

• By Fashionista
  Jun 27, 2013

New blog Part Nouveau, or ‘partly new’, delves into fashion history to showcase the inspiration–be it art, photography or design–behind some of today’s biggest fashion moments. It’s fascinating and impossible not to get lost in, so we asked the site’s founder, Lilah Ramzi, to give us a little history lesson each week. This week's lesson? A look at YSL's Le Smoking from 1975, and as reinterpreted by Hedi Slimane for today.

• By Lilah Ramzi
  Jun 20, 2013

If you missed last night's YSL cocktail party at Housing Works, there's still hope. We've unearthed a haven of designer paper dolls onAmazon.com. So

• By Britt Aboutaleb
  Dec 12, 2008

It's not often that an important exhibit skips over New York to San Francisco without so much as a stop on the way back. But alas, the newly modern, (

• By Britt Aboutaleb
  Jul 18, 2008