When Rick Owens ordered the alabaster for his new furniture range, so much was removed from a quarry in Spain that spies—actual spies—were dispatched to Paris to see what was being done with it. The answer, the enormous ton-and-a-half bed that is the centerpiece of his new show of furniture (pictured), is now on view [...]

Just who is the customer for Duro Olowu’s intensely arty, vibrant patchwork dresses (this season inspired by Picasso)? Who else but intensely arty, vibrant women? At a lunch today on the sixth floor of Barneys, in addition to co-hosts Amanda Brooks and Olowu’s wife, Thelma Golden, the director of the Studio Museum of Harlem, there [...]

Ron Arad: No Discipline, the first major U.S. retrospective of the designer’s work (and arguably one of the most anticipated shows of the year; I waited in a 15-minute-long queue to see the actual show alongside the likes of Francesco Clemente, Agnes Gund, and Thelma Golden), opened at the Museum of Modern Art last night. [...]

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 [...]