Category: Reflection
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A Daughter Walks Her Mother’s Old Floor
For most of a week before her first Paris runway, Lily Brant walked back and forth on a treadmill in heels, alone.
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The Shop Between the Casino and the Hotel
In the summer of 1913, a shop opened in Deauville with no name over the door but a woman’s own.
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A Heel That Stops Pretending
A Gianvito Rossi heel does not announce itself as an heirloom. It’s usually just a stiletto — one long, unbroken line.
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The Gold Too Loaded to Wear or Melt
A safety deposit box, opened for the first time in eleven years, smells like every one of them does.
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A Store Built Where a Mansion Stood
The tailor’s shop above Union Square in 1899 had no way of knowing what it would become.
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A Fashion Archive Sold By the Piece
Fifty years of American ready-to-wear were arranged, for one night, inside a single room in Manhattan.
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The Dresses She Sold That Summer
In a Christie’s saleroom in New York, in June of 1997, seventy-nine dresses hung on one long rail.