Cathy Horyn writes a moving tribute about her friend and recently deceased designer L'Wren Scott, which includes the tidbit that she was planning on closing her label soon, with an announcement this week.
Arthur Ortenberg, the widower of Liz Claiborne who helped found her eponymous company, has died. Ortenberg was the partner of former New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn, and his failing health was the reason she cited for leaving the paper after 15 years. Ortenberg was 87.
New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn resigned Friday, mere days before New York Fashion Week begins. WHAT?! The fashion world has been rocked to its very core.
Well, this is strange. Lady Gaga performed during the Mugler show in Paris. Okay, that's not so strange, but this is: she rapped. Stranger still: she rapped in the persona of a man, with her voice distorted to sound male. And what did Lady Gaga rap about, you ask? Why, she took this opportunity to exhort an…
Need a $1200 Lanvin dress for your preschooler? How about a $375 Burberry trench coat for your first-grader? Today in class-rage hate-reads, the Times looks at the phenomenon of designer children's wear. Blah blah blah journalistic ass-covering about how this is trend is "growing" goes here, numbers figures numbers…
Lady Gaga used her latest V column to praise 15-year-old blogger/freelance writer/high school student Tavi Gevinson, and shit-talk New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn. (Horyn once wrote a blog post expressing mild dislike of a Versace dress the Lady wore.) "Why have we decided that one person's opinion matters…
As you may have heard, Michelle Obama recently wore a red Alexander McQueen evening gown to a state dinner held in honor of the Chinese president, Hu Jintao. This apparently made a lot of people very unhappy.
Lara Stone is a successful model and we basically love seeing her everywhere. But what we don't love is seeing all the girls who look like Lara, kinda-sorta, that the modeling industry is now promoting to ubiquity. This must stop.
Cathy Horyn is not sorry for what she wrote about Snooki. Nor does she feel particularly bad for Tommy Hilfiger, Alexander Wang, Giorgio Armani, or any of the other people whose collections and/or fashion sense she has publicly critiqued.
"His ideas came from everywhere. It was never about, ‘Oh let's look at the Seventies,'" says Sarah Burton. (Why, whoever could she mean?) "Lee was about feeling, and he was a storyteller. It has to come from within you."
