Fashion is My Muse

copyright Ingrid Mida, 2008 This is my latest sculpture creation, a miniat...

The Royal Ontario Museum has a magnificent costume and textile collection consisting of approximately 50,000 items. Sadly only a very tiny ...

Whether fashion can be considered to be a work of art in and of itself is an ongoing debate among art curators and fashion historians. But ...

Viktor and Rolf are a Dutch design duo that create technically exquisite, artistically breathtaking fashion . I attended the retrospective ...

One could spend days at the Victoria and Albert Museum . On a recent visit there, I went upstairs to see the British Collection and was ast...

I am obsessed with corsets as an object d'art and have studied books on their construction. One of the best displays of corsets is in th...

Yves Saint Laurent Evening dress inspired by Matisse  There are countless examples of artists and fashion designers who have looked to ...

This is the last of my tributes to the legendary Yves Saint Laurent. In all the research I did this week, I am left with a tremendous sense ...

The influence of the late Yves Saint Laurent on what women wear today is mind boggling. In all the tributes to the designer this week, few ...

One of the most significant fashion legacies of the late Yves Saint Laurent was his introduction of the pantsuit for women. "A woman in...

Elegance is a way of moving. It is also knowing how to adapt to all of life's circumstances. Without elegance of the Heart, there is no ...

Earlier this evening, the legendary fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died at age 71 after a long illness. This talented but fragile fashi...