Since Oscar de la Renta's passing, luminaries from Anna Wintour to the Clintons have shared fond memories of the legendary designer.

One of our favorite fashion writers and critics returns to the paper after a four year hiatus.

Creating a more diverse industry starts on the runway.

The Fashionista 50 slideshow. Click through for a short bio on each of our picks.

Click through to dig into our list of the most influential members of the New York fashion industry.

"There comes a time when a girl has got to put on her heels and sally forth!" Robin Givhan told us of her new gig.

In the 1970s, the New Yorker’s fashion critic, Kennedy Fraser, wrote about clothes nearly every week. Yes, she reported on the collections. And industry personalities. But she also wrote about fashion’s role in the greater culture, whether discussing hemline lengths or blue jeans. In a New York Times review of A Fashionable Mind, Fraser’s collection of those essays published in 1981, writer Maureen Howard puts it pretty succinctly: “The book is about clothes - the wearing, buying, making, selling, discarding of clothes - and so, of course, it is about us and our society.” Fraser is undoubtedly a rare writer: one who has the ability to take an arguably shallow topic and give it the kind of depth even a serious New Yorker reader could appreciate. But lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the fashion critic in general, and how that role has changed, and sometimes disappeared altogether—for no good reason.

Around here, we love a good fashion book. 2012 brought us winners like Grace Coddington's memoir, the Sartorialist's second venture Closer, and the massive Kate Moss Book. Whether you're looking for a good read to help pass the long days spent inside waiting for spring, or just something pretty to go on your coffee table, we've compiled a list of the best style books being released in 2013, plus where to get them. And the releases start now. Mary Blume's hotly anticipated biography of Balenciaga hits bookstores today.

Perhaps last year's biggest shocker within the fashion media circle was Newsweek's sudden layoff of Robin Givhan. The Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist, best known in recent years for her analysis of the wardrobes of political figures (especially of the FLOTUS), joined Newsweek from the Washington Post in 2010. So, has she made a return to the DC paper? Sort of!