Forever turning cosmic curiosities into couture, Slow Factory designer and founder Celine Semaan Vernon has commemorated this special day in space history in a line of signature, sustainably-sourced silk-modal scarves.
Or there's threeASFOUR, a fashion collective whose clothes are as weird as their name, who'll stage an event with "edible couture dresses" not in some abandoned outer-borough factory, but in the Fifth Avenue townhouse that houses the Jewish Museum.
Now, even the remaining factories and shops that make the couture coats, dresses and other apparel for glamorous fashion designers like Nicole Miller, Yeohlee Teng, Anna Sui and Nanette Lepore are in jeopardy.
After I found a factory in Italy to make what I call "couture comfort," I introduced 12 styles.
A mannish, haute boiler suit look ran through the collection — but for evening, this down-and-dirty style was made up in fabrics that were the antithesis of that factory concept: layers of satin, lace, gazar and other couture materials.
A couture dress is by definition something exceptional, something that cannot be made in a factory or in large quantities.
Street couture and high tech culture, that of a city which died as a Fiat factory and was born as a motor of alternative culture.
If Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry had a child, it would be Sprouse, whose rocker demeanor belies his cultured couture career, starting at Halston when Babe Paley was a client and moving on to Warhol's Factory.
Haute couture takes time!
