chez toledo, a hothouse atmosphere
July 23, 2008 1:12 pm

Call it the Toledo metric: Henceforth, it will be possible to measure the fashion community’s devotion to a designer by the number of minutes its members are willing to spend in her un-air-conditioned apartment, in the middle of a heat wave. To judge by last night’s celebration in her honor, Isabel Toledo is adored indeed. “Ruben was painting, painting, painting until the very last minute,” she explained of the hand-decorated fans making the rounds at the fête, which marked the announcements by FIT that Toledo is the winner of this year’s Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion and that she will be the subject of a major retrospective in 2009. Co-hosted by FIT’s Valerie Steele and Bazaar editor Glenda Bailey, the event saw devotees including Yigal Azrouël, Christian Cota, and Narciso Rodriguez braving the AC-free conditions at Chez Toledo.
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