Fashion is My Muse

Cover Vogue, Inccorpoating Vanity Fair August 15, 1937 Fashion magazines have used the back to school theme as inspiration for their Aug...

Sleeveless dress with Matching Cropped Jacket Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner, c.1963, FRC1986.01.01 A+B I think this dress and jacket...

Portrait of Ai Weiwei, Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario  Ai Weiwei is an artist unlike any other of our time, crafting transgress...

Cover of Astor Place Vintage Paperback Within a few pages of beginning to read the novel  Astor Place Vintage , I was captivated and una...

Art Gallery of Ontario  As I review my upcoming talk at the Art Gallery of Ontario this afternoon for the Discursive Spaces Conferen...

Cover of the Costume Journal, Issue 43, Number 1 Art Directed by Marta Kowcun, Photo by Lawrence Cortes, Dress by Some Kong, Model Mikael...

      Dolls are conceptual art objects of strange beauty and desire.                                                                    (Ex...

I cannot recall another time when there have been so many fashion related events in Toronto, which means that, for once, I don't have to...

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...

Dear friends, It has been a while since I've posted here. After much of my blog was copied onto other sites, I lost some of the jo...

Not to be missed in the winter/spring of 2013 are the following exhibitions of fashion in the museum: Fashioning Fashion, European Dre...