It’s the year of the woman, or so they tell me. And to prove it, fashion has been elevated to an art at no less an arbiter of taste than The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). Trolling its recent haute couture exhibition, I remembered in a hot flash why I gave up fashion as […]
Frank Sinatra struck a chord when he sang “I did it my way.” Artist/designer Denise Proctor heard the call. It defined her life. She poured her artistic spirit and her soul into her vision for a school for little fashionistas – the Westchester Fashion Institute. From her perch on the 6th floor of ArtsWestchester’s building, she […]
Whoever coined the phrase “all good things must come to an end” clearly must have seen and loved our HATtitude exhibition which alas comes to an end this Saturday at 5 p.m. That is, unless some venue pops up out of the blue that can accommodate all 150 chapeaus in a manner befitting their elegance. […]
I am definitely not a hat person, although I do love hats. So I was happy to try on a few at the HATtitude exhibition of ArtsWestchester. I found out that despite my short hair, there were a few I could wear with HATtitude. Most of the try-on hats were provided by co-curator of the […]
There are very few things for which I will stand in line…not a movie…not a restaurant…not even an ice cream. Yet, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced extended hours for the last few days of the Alexander McQueen exhibition, I joined hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists on a seemingly never-ending line. Thinking back, […]
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