“I’ve often been of accused of, what do you call it, marching to the beat of my own drum,” designer Yeohlee Teng said last night at the opening of her new store on a stretch of 38th Street in the Garment District. The neighborhood is known more for wholesale than retail, but Teng—the general secretary [...]

This morning, representatives from the CFDA, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and the Design Trust for Public Space unveiled Made in Midtown, their report on New York’s historic Garment District. Designers Narciso Rodriguez, Reed Krakoff, Anna Sui, John Bartlett, and Yeohlee Teng were all on hand for the announcement of the report (and [...]

Attention, supermarket shoppers: That’s a Maria Cornejo in aisle 3. “If clothes aren’t worn, they’re not alive,” Cornejo said about the accessibility of American design. “I always tell my assistant, ‘I can’t wear this to Trader Joe’s!’ ” The Chilean designer was speaking at the Cooper-Hewitt museum alongside Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa and Yeohlee Teng [...]

With the wind of Marc Levin’s HBO documentary Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags, which aired Monday, at their backs, supporters of NYC’s shrinking Garment District gathered today at noon for a Save the Garment Center rally. There was a sizable turnout for the event at the corner of 39th Street and Seventh Avenue, which [...]