After gazing at the clothes modelled in Calvin Luo’s fall-winter 2019 collection, three words seemed to outline for me most of the pieces: in alphabetical order, plaids-solids-stripes. They conjure up the lasting image for me, even though there were a few eyebrow-raising items that featured animal prints, the designer’s name in a series of patterns, […]
The Council of Aspiring American Fashion Designers (CAAFD) is a non-profit organization whose goal is to bolster aspiring fashion designers and in their own words, “help those emerging designers get a foot in the door.” Chelsea Piers was packed and of the three designers presenting, the first was Mouton Blanc. In French, mouton blanc […]
In the early 1970’s, a movement was wriggling around in the United Kingdom. Strutting onto the scene in platform boots, and bellbottoms came Glam Rock. Just a little south-east, at the end of that very same decade, Turkey was developing their first feminist movement. Fast forward to Sunday, four decades later, Turkish designer Hakan Akkaya […]
There are many different genres of music that the public likes to jam out to on any given day. Some prefer to bop along to the latest pop hit, while others prefer the soothing canting of jazz. Others are more interested in the introspective musings of blues, with some canting away to a trusty country […]
At first, a hardware store hardly seems an appropriate venue for a runway. However, for Amanda Mehl’s AW19 show, “Love Handles,” the wrenches, paint samples, and fake grass at Garber’s made the perfect environment. The industrial surroundings provided an intense juxtaposition to the prominently featured animal prints and faux fur. These animalistic elements were paired […]
Witnessing Tania Stavreva on piano at the National Opera Center of New York- Opera America, one rainy October night, rekindled my affinity for the lost art. Taking lessons, performing recitals and wooing family members on the black baby grand in our marble-sky lit living room as a kid, the piano became less accessible and more of a […]
Slipping into the Lower East Side enclave bestowed with upcoming and established artists, the Con Artist Collective kicked off 2019 with its surrealism exhibit. Excavating the unconscious while unlocking its creative potential, members and residents of the in-house collective morph reality, imbue color with strange shapes and forms, and inject viewers with lasting impressions of what […]
Questioning the functionality of the Visual, Written and Classic Arts has become an epidemic, via the advent of the portable web and iphone. Who has time to paint when filters and image reconstruction apps exist? Why carry heavy books around–with the inventions of Audible, Kindle and Utube–only to strain the eyes? Who attends plays, operas or […]