Category: Fashion

Fashion and design are much more closely aligned that most people realize. These posts explore a connection between the two disciplines, whether it means a fashion designer is delving into interior or product design, or an interior designer has used fashion to influence his or her products or rooms.

I’ve written about new releases by Century Furniture designed by Oscar de la Renta, as well as his dishware that I spotted at the New York Botanical Gardens when I was there to see the exhibition on Beatrix Farrand, Edith Wharton’s niece. I learned quite a lot about their relationship when I was delving into Wharton’s papers at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, reading the letters Farrand wrote to her aunt as they share their passion for gardening.

I also love to compose diary entries that have seriously overt pairings of fashion and design, such as the Find Your Red Carpet post, which featured Oscar fashions paired with design products by Currey & Company. Fashion, Film and Design were the focus of another Currey & Company post, in which I chose their products to reflect the mood of Faye Dunaway/Steve McQueen version of The Thomas Crown Affair. Titled How to Set a Mood – The Thomas Crown Affair, it was a play on great mid-century modern design and the sultry scenes that played out in the film during which the stars were themselves surrounded by mid-century modern furnishings.

And what would the courtiers of the Bourbon kings be without fashion? In a diary entry reviewing the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France, I spoke of the lauded painter’s influence on the fashion of her time, her penchant for more comfortable clothing resulting in the courtiers of Louis XV! (including his queen Marie Antoinette) dressing down for the first time in history! Le Brun’s paintings are some of the most important documents of the history of her lifetime and I was so thrilled to be able to see them in person!