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Fashion historian Caroline Weber wants to know to what extent those miracles really happened.
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Alexander McQueen has an idea that could transform the age-old parades of seasonal style, says Caroline Weber, a French literature professor at Barnard.
The fashion author and historian worries about the quantity and quality of her output.
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Fashion historian Caroline Weber is hoping we’ll pass out of the phase in which celebrities are the ultimate trendsetters. Only then will style become original again.
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Barnard professor Caroline Weber recalls an embarrassing moment on the French Metro that speaks volumes about the disparate relationship that American and French women have with fashion.
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When fashion expert Caroline Weber studies the significance of today’s style, she is struck by the rapid pace of changing trends, all working to feed the $300 billion industry.
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Historian Caroline Weber takes us through the origination of fashion, which started as early as the 12th century.
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From Marie Antoinette to Michelle Obama, one’s clothing often has the power to dictate their fate, says fashion historian and Barnard professor Caroline Weber.
The esteemed writer only loses sleep when the Yankees play on the west coast.
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Alison Gopnik faced a unique challenge trying to make a name for herself in the hard-nosed male-dominated realm of philosophy while simultaneously following her heart’s desire to work with children.
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Alison Gopnik worries about children growing up poor.
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Developmental Psychologist Alison Gopnik makes the case that babies are at the core of what human love is all about, and explains how the lives of animals prove it.
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Alison Gopnik insists that her experience studying the development of children’s minds did nothing to help her raise her own children.
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Thinking like a baby unlocks creativity, enhances sensation, and sparks new ideas. And it turns out that drinking an espresso with your lover in Paris is the key to arriving […]
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Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik points out the crucial age during which children’s brains evolve into adult brains, and explains what parents can do to ensure the transition is seamless.
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To developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik, early education has it all wrong: class and study based teaching is counterintuitive and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of how our minds grow.
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Developmental psychologist and author Alison Gopnik has spent her career learning truths about the mind and answering the big philosophical questions with help from an unlikely source: babies. Gopnik told […]
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A conversation with the Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.
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A conversation with the chairman of Pace Wildenstein Galleries.
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Art dealer Arne Glimcher talks about a dream dinner conversation of reductionism and minimalism.