Fashion is My Muse

Other than the rollout of Fashion Weeks around the world, there is a long list of fashion-related events and exhibitions on the calendar for...

Punk:Chaos to Couture at the Met Costume Institute Photo by Ingrid Mida 2013 Museums are my happy place and May is museum month! ...

Alexandra Kim: A Royal Presentation April is a busy month for art and fashion related events. Here are selected highlights on the cal...

Red Jackie Andy Warhol Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 1964 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Copyright 2012, The Andy Warhol Found...

McQueen's Raven Dress made of 2000 raven feathers Photo by Solve Sundbro Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011 Andrew B...

Not long ago, Brazillian journalist and editor Racquel Gaudard contacted me for an article she was writing for the publication Duetto . Her...

June seems relatively quiet compared to this past month! Some of the ongoing shows and events that I would recommend include: Cristobal ...

Surreal Body Gallery Prada and Schiaparelli: Impossible Conversations Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art At the press preview...

May will be a hectic month, with the opening of several must-see exhibitions: Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations op...

Untitled by Valerie Belin, 1997 This dress, stuffed with archival tissue, is from a series of works by French photographer Valerie Bel...

Roger Vivier at the Bata Shoe Museum, photo by Ron Wood, copyright of the Bata Shoe Museum The explosion of fashion exhibitions in museu...

Gaga's Boudoir Window at Barney's New York by Ingrid Mida 2011 Poet Charles Baudelaire and theorist Walter Benjamin were fascina...

In a month filled with holiday parties and festivities (not to mention a raft of deadlines), I find the reflective nature of art to be...

Insect Necklace by Schiaparelli Sometimes inspiration comes from the least likely of places. Earlier this week, Harold Koda , chief cu...

Harold Koda (Photo by Karin Willis) Last night, Sonja Bata introduced The Founder's Lecture series at the Bata Shoe Museum in To...

Queen Alexandra in Court Dress Courtesy of the ROM and subject to copyright November is another hectic month!!! Here is what's on t...

Harold Koda  On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, Harold Koda will be speaking on the subject of Fashion and the Art Museum as part of the Bat...

" Everything I do is connected to nature in one way or another ." Lee Alexander McQueen Over the course of his career, McQueen c...

Although Alexander McQueen was known for his exquisite tailoring, I've not seen much mention of the extent to which he deployed embroide...

Alexander McQueen once said " Life to me is a bit of a [Brothers] Grimm fairy tale ". A gothic fairy tale was what came to mind wh...