I somehow lost the plot and didn’t get tickets to the sold-out Bat for Lashes show at Bowery Ballroom this Thursday. While I’m blue about missing the performance, I have a feeling that we’ll all be seeing lots more of Natasha Khan in the near future—she’s always seemed a shoe-in for fashion favoritism to me. [...]

What was the impetus for Anna Sui’s career? “I wanted to dress rock stars and people who go to rock concerts,” said the designer at last night’s Friends of the Costume Institute event, which drew the likes of Baby Jane Holzer, Stephen Burrows, and artist and longtime Sui collaborator Hiroshi Tanabe. Sui, who will receive [...]