A Tribute To Anna

While freelancing at CondeNet years ago, I took one month off to go upstairs and fact check for Vogue. The first time I saw that bob down the hallway I froze. I walked past Anna Wintour unable to even say hello. Later I saw Grace Coddington waiting for the subway at Times Square. Vogue editors [...]

Target To Bring Back Popular GO Dresses

Everyone’s favorite mass retailer, that giant red bulls eye adorned mecca, is bringing back a selection of the most popular dresses from their GO International Designer Collective. To celebrate the five year anniversary of the ingenious designer-for-the-masses development, Minneapolis-based Target is bringing back almost three dozen dresses from a handful of designers, for a limited [...]

Fashion’s Night Out: A Realistic Guide To Shop-Hopping

Fashion’s Night Out is one more attempt by Vogue Queen Bee Anna Wintour to help the retail industry salvage earnings and for that, we applaud it. But, Trendcetera is about encouraging Americans to be open minded, well educated, smart shoppers and that means shopping for what you need not what you want. Still, avoiding the [...]

What We Learned At Fashion’s Night Out

Does skinny equal pretty? Will carrying a Louis mask one’s fatness? These are the questions that streamed through my mind while shop hopping on the windy Thursday evening that was the world’s inaugural Fashion’s Night Out. The evening was a mass effort to get Americans out to celebrate fashion week and swipe the plastic. We [...]

Fashion Behind The Glass Where Mainstream And Museum MeetWhat:Part two of two on art events focusing on fashion, from felt to the fabulous life.

The DirtAn art form, a supremely consumer industry, and a scene where sinners often trumps saint—welcome to the fashion world. In an industry where appearance comes first, it’s easy for the superficial to overpower the artistic. However, fashion is like any other art form, with the widespread appreciation a long time in the making and [...]

Storied Fashion Exhibits Where Mainstream And Museum MeetWhat:Part one of two on art events focusing on fashion, namely museum exhibits spotlighting both muses and designers.

The Dirt: Fashion is to the art world what celebrity magazines are to publishing: the perceived fluff. However each one has merit in their work and their appeal to the masses. From October through March, a number of American museums are opening exhibits spotlighting the art of fashion, with a few accompanied by books and [...]