The Essentials

The blog Of Another Fashion collects reader-submitted photos of women of color: flappers and bobby soxers, brides and hippies, kimonoed and cocktail dressed. Minh-Ha Pham, assistant professor in the History of Art and Visual Studies and the Asian American Studies Program, curates the site. “In general, I’m trying to put together a collection of photos [...]

Designer Issey Miyake’s fall-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear collection takes its inspiration from the work of Cornell mathematics professor William Thurston, whose Geometrization Conjecture – “a comprehensive vision of eight geometries that are sufficient to form an ideal shape for all possible three-dimensional topologies” – influences the collection. Pretty heady stuff. Read more here. “We are both [...]