Designers embraced their inner Cleopatras and Tutankhamens this season, offering fresh takes on Egyptian costume (click for slideshow). At Anna Sui, hieroglyphs provided the basis for elaborate prints, while Sophia Kokosalaki worked in a pharaoh-worthy palette of lapis lazuli and gold. Andrew Gn amped up tunic dresses with embroidered metal collars, and Sophie Buhai and [...]

In these hard times, everyone’s looking for high-end quality at mid-level prices. With said objective in mind, shoe retailer Via Spiga has hit the ground running, recently opening a boutique on Broadway and Broome just south of the frenzied retail strip and collaborating with Vena Cava’s Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai to produce a [...]

Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock have come a long way from the living room. Back in 2003, the freshly minted Parsons grads set up shop in the apartment they shared in Brooklyn and began mashing up ideas for their new brand, Vena Cava. In the years since, a healthy sense of eclecticism has served the [...]