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Valerie Steele, the author of “In the Corset: A Cultural History,” dissects the relationship between women and fashion through the ages. Plus, how Michelle Obama might be changing everything.
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Fashion historian Valerie Steele recaps New York Fashion Week 2009, outlining its major shortcoming.
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Valerie Steele, chief curator of the Museum at FIT, gives an update on the status of staple items that make or break an outfit.
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A conversation with fashion historian and chief curator of the Museum at FIT.
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Big Think Interview with Harriet Mays Powell.
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The fashion director at New York Magazine shares her fear of becoming obsolete in a youth-driven industry.
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Harriet Mays Powell tells us what it’s like to get dressed when you’re the one setting the trends.
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With magazine sales plummeting and alternative, privately-funded publications on the rise, Harriet Mays Powell discusses the future of the behemoth glossy.
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Lady Gaga at Marc Jacobs, wearing…Marc Jacobs—Harriet Mays Powell explores the symbiotic relationship between fashion and celebrity.
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Harriet Mays Powell dissects the complex relationship between the fashion capitals of the world and their clothes.
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The fashion director at New York Magazine breaks down the hits, misses and total disappointments from what was overall a good fashion week for NYC.
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With the advent of “Karl Lagerfeld for H&M” and eminently affordable designers like Diane Von Furstenburg and Tory Burch, Harriet Mays Powell thinks we may have seen the end of […]
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Gay Talese describes the tobacco-filled and liquor-drenched newsrooms of The New York Times in the sixties—where men passed out on typewriters, and no one was quite sure just how the […]
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Since growing up in his parents’ tailoring and dressmaking shop in New Jersey, the writer has maintained a taste for family craftsmanship.
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The constraints of reality, Gay Talese argues, have turned many great writers away from non-fiction. Yet, with the proper patience and engagement with one’s subject, those bound to the facts […]
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Sex, claims Gay Talese, has always been everywhere—it’s just a matter of how one has to go about finding it. Here he explains how, while there have been few changes […]
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Gay Talese describes the deleterious effects that recording devices, hollowed expense accounts, and an emphasis on ‘indoor life’ have had on the writing process.
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The key to a lasting relationship, says Gay Talese, is looking past the ‘mating game’s’ wonted rituals and flowery ambiguities and learning to emphasize mutual freedom and respect.
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Gay Talese explains how a childhood spent eavesdropping on conversations in a New Jersey dress-shop and a lingering sense of being an outsider prepared him for the writing life.
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The head of Kaiser Permanente offers up advice to fellow CEOs.