Women, Power & Fashion

By: Deborah Ma “We are all, to varying degrees, public people now.” For better or worse, you’ll have to admit with Vanessa Friedman whose article, Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Power of Style, published in the New York Times, explains how in a world increasingly run with social sharing sites like Instagram and Pinterest, “judgments [are] made, lon...

NYC Fashion District Tour

By: Melissa Ng The Fashion industry is glamorous on the outside but there is a lot of history and strong work ethic that makes it a thriving & challenging business. There will always be a desire and need for clothes. As part of CFW’s Fashion & Finance month, on September 28th a tour of NYC’s Fashion District was given. Following is a recap of the place...

Fashion Week – For Better or Worse?

By: Deborah Ma With the frenzy of Fashion Week finally behind us, New York City has returned to its regular rhythms. This grand arrival and sudden exodus of models, designers, bloggers, editors and spectators, each dedicated to the hope of uncovering what is beautiful for the human form, has waved in and out of New York, London, and Milan. This week, Paris will now host t...

The End of NY Fashion Week?

By: Benjamin Setiawan The NYTimes published a piece yesterday entitled Is New York Fashion Week at the End of the Runway? This is certainly not a new subject matter. For years people have been talking about the commercialization and exhaustive pace of New York Fashion Week (NYFW). I find myself guilty of complaining about running around the city all day for 10 days s...

Fashion Thinking

CFW Living Room participant and Vocation Group Leader Fiona Dieffenbacher has published a textbook, Fashion Thinking.  Fieldnotes Magazine features an article by Fiona where she describes her motivation for creating the book: “As I searched for academic textbooks in the field of fashion that might provide support I found none that fully unmasked the desi...

Fashionable Beauty

By: Maria Fee I recently posed the question to a group of artists, why does art matter to God? To my surprise, only one respondent employed the word beauty. Beauty is, forgive the term, out of fashion. Indeed, Crispin Sartwell surmises that the declined value of beauty has much to do with its association concerning pleasure. Sartwell asserts that beauty arouses ...

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