Yesterday the brilliant photographer Irving Penn passed away in his Manhattan apartment at the age of 92. Working his camera and artistic vision up until the very end, his amazing career spanned decades. From his first days as an assistant art director at Vogue magazine to the world renowned master of his medium that he [...] Read more »
I’m So Glad I Found ShopSCAD
All it took was one stylish Tomato Red dress to catch my eye and get me talking to a lovely stranger at last night’s NY Design Center’s What’s New, What’s Next@200 Lex event. See what an incredible driving force the right color can be. My “I love your dress” comment led me into a fascinating [...] Read more »
Best In Color: September Week 2
Source NYC’s Spring 2010 Fashion Week kicks off with a shopping spree like no other: Okay, it really is too early to be naming next Spring’s specific color trends ( though Neiman Marcus’s Fashion Director Ken Downing did tell NY Magazine that we can expect to see lots of Blue), there is one definite trend [...] Read more »
Feeling the Felt at The Cooper Hewitt Museum
On the advice of a friend, a textile designer no less, I visited the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum this weekend. I had never been to this gem at 91st and 5th ave, an outpost of The Smithsonian housed in an Andrew Carnegie mansion. What a treat ! Visit www.cooperhewitt.org to plan your visit. The [...] Read more »
Color me MOMA
This weekend I was invited to a member’s only night at The Museum of Modern Art, to view the new exhibition ‘Color Chart-Reinventing Color: 1950 to today’. As a guest of color maven Kim Brown, I was treated to an evening of complimentary wine, a pretty decent DJ, and the best people watching opportunity of [...] Read more »
