The Costume Institute’s Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is currently drawing thronging crowds in New York (so much so that its run has already been extended), but its reach doesn’t stop there. Last night in Los Angeles, Friends of the Costume Institute Cameron Silver and Susan Casden hosted a dinner in honor of the exhibition and [...]

Welcome to the future, St. Regis Hotel—and by the future, of course, we mean the App Store. New York’s storied hotel is the latest to debut its own PDA application, which will allow guests of the hotel (and those who wish they were) to find calendar listings and a directory of favorite places to shop, [...]

Oprah Winfrey, who is a co-host of tonight’s Costume Institute Party of the Year with Vogue’s Anna Wintour and Gap’s Patrick Robinson, wasn’t in the house, but the American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity preview and press conference at the Met this morning drew a big crowd nonetheless. Explaining the genesis of the exhibition, curator [...]

The dress code was “Endless Summer” at last night’s party for the new book Resort Fashion: Style in Sun-Drenched Climates, a collection of vintage fashion photos spanning the history of the tweener season. With chapters like “Stripes,” “Playclothes,” and “Polka Dots,” flipping through is as fun as a frolic on the beach. Well, almost. “Resort [...]

“A good model can advance fashion ten years.” That was Marc Jacobs quoting Yves Saint Laurent this morning at the Met, where the designer, Vogue’s Anna Wintour, the Costume Institute’s Harold Koda, and the museum’s new director, Thomas P. Campbell, were gathered for a press conference about the upcoming exhibition The Model as Muse: Embodying [...]

A sizable but nevertheless intimate group gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday afternoon to honor one of fashion’s most provocative unsung heroes, African- American designer Arthur McGee. Born in Detroit in 1933, McGee recalled his mother’s sewing from a young age, a memory that would later inspire his career in design. He entered [...]