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Thank You for a wonderful 2011! See you next year

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Keren Ben-Horin

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading →

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Alexandre de Paris, Hair Styling Royalty

Posted on December 31, 2011 by emmakpenner

I recently saw the Grace Kelly: From Movie Star to Princess exhibition, currently on view at Toronto’s TIFF Lightbox. Of course, I fell in love with the dresses and jewels, but after leaving the show I kept thinking about the sketches … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Keren Ben-Horin

Happy New Year to all our readers and followers!

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Downton Abbey Cast Talks

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Keren Ben-Horin

  Are you an addict? I know I am…. Here is a link to Q&A with the cast of Downton Abbey. I bet this hat, worn by Lady Grantham: was inspired by this:  

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Why should we go on consuming the past?

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Keren Ben-Horin

In the January issue of Vanity Fair, novelist and journalist Kurt Anderson points to the curios standstill of popular culture in the past twenty years. This is a mind-blowing article that should be read and considered by those who create our … Continue reading →

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What They Wore- The Study of Dress in European Paintings

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Keren Ben-Horin

For our class of History Through the Nineteenth Century we were asked to analyze dress in a chosen painting from the 1400s to the 1800s with the aim to determine if the painter could be considered a valuable source for … Continue reading →

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Books Books Books

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Keren Ben-Horin

This fall there is abundance of new fashion-related books: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (Abrams) Written by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, who also produced a documentary about Diana Vreeland and is married to her grandson Alexander. About the book … Continue reading →

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Fifth Avenue, 5 Am: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Keren Ben-Horin

Tonight  at The Tenement Museum Sam Wasson will talk with James Sanders on his wonderful book Fifth Avenue, 5 Am: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman  details here  

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Posted on September 23, 2011 by Keren Ben-Horin

*Holland Cotter, New York Times art critic on NY fashion week:Fashion at the Line of Beauty *100 years of East London Fashion *  The Cheerless Life of The Umbrella Maker, C. 1853      

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Cooper-Hewitt Haiti Cultural Recovery Project

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Keren Ben-Horin

Check out this post from Sarah Scaturro, graduate of our program, on her experience at Haiti, conserving Vodou textiles. Fascinating stuff!  http://cooperhewitt.org/blog/2011/08/23/haiti-cultural-recovery-project-part-1

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