From Damien Hirst to Dan Akroyd’s vodka bottle, skulls are everywhere and today of course, skeletons will dance in windows and ring our bells looking for treats. Amid the vast product boneyard a few things have piqued my interest:
From Japanese designer Nobuhiku Kitamura’s extravagant, rock-influenced line, Hysteric Glamour.
Beijing-born, New York-based artist Jing Yu’s 2003 litho,”Gold [...]
To tell the story of the Brooklyn boutique, Hooti Couture is to share the various incarnations of Alison Houtte as cover girl, vintage maven and author. The vivacious proprietor gives first props, though, to her fashionable grandmother, Clemence Houtte, whose sense of style shaped her own and whose pronunciation of the family surname as “hoo-tee” [...]
An Ndebele woman.
The past few months have been a whirlwind for creative wunderkind Montgomery Harris. She was invited to present workshops in August to South African crafters and designers in conjunction with fashion week in Cape Town. Spending time there as well as in Johannesburg, she volunteered her services but received beautiful inspiration in return. [...]
Years ago before marriage added motherhood and the Adams to her name, I met Nichole R. Thompson Adams on an indie film project. In recent years I’ve come to live in the same nabe as the Clinton Hill homeowner/real estate broker/performer. Just the other day as she walked her palm-sized pup we bumped into one [...]
Walking down Fifth Avenue in Park Slope last night I was charmed by a street-side performance of Girl From Ipanema, by a duo wearing Brooklyn Conservatory of Music t-shirts. “How lovely,” I thought as the mellifluous sounds wafted into the night air. Two blocks later, an upright bass and more music. A sax solo across [...]
I ran into jewelry designer Elma Blint at the vendors market at Madison Square Park a few days ago and we spoke of the relative merits of the the nearby Shake Shack (the burgers, she proclaimed, “excellent”) She then delightedly shared the news that her 6-foot-2 thirteen year-old son, is one of the top three [...]
Many years ago, when I too was entering the fashion game, I met Yusuf Rashad who was then honing his craft as a photographer by assisting some of the best in the business, Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz, among them. In the intervening years there’s been a return to his given name, Curtiss Jacobs, and [...]
Peacocks, the males of the peafowl species (the females are peahens) have long been glorified for their beauty and the spectacular brilliance of their plumage. The motif is one that fashion — for the home as well as the body — revisits quite frequently and last Spring’s love affair with the beauteous bird (think Matthew [...]
Fifteen years ago, an unassuming young man of good taste transformed a former beauty salon — a long, narrow underground lair–into distinct rooms to display home furnishings befitting each. The vintage crib in the nursery held colorful, charming goodies for kids; a claw-foot tub housed a myriad of bath accessories; the inviting dining table was [...]
On October 4th the fall fun fest known as Atlantic Antic was for the 35th year, bustling with activity along Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to Hicks Street near the Waterfront. It, like many of Brooklyn’s outdoor festivals becomes a reunion of sorts, where friends and family stroll the avenue in search of a great [...]
