One of the industry’s most beloved creative minds, Azzedine Alaïa’s legacy as both an unparalleled couturier and an independent force willing to buck the fashion system is without question. Alaïa, who passed away early Saturday morning, opened his first atelier for private clients in his Rue de Bellechasse apartment in the late 1970s. He debuted his first ready-to-wear Read More →

In the 1960s, the fashion world turned “topsy-turvy,” as TIME noted in 1967. Nearly every aspect of that revolutionary decade, from the civil-rights movement to the space race, was somehow reflected in the clothing worn by American women. The book Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip, which is being released in coordination with a show of the same Read More →