By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Let’s be honest: There are garage sales, and then there are serious garage sales. Mexico’s Diplomatic Wives Association’s (ACD) first-ever empty-our-closets garage sale is definitely going to be the latter. Slated to take place on Wednesday, June 22, inside the gardens of the Uruguayan Embassy residence in Mexico, located at Corregidoras 405 in Mexico City’s Colonia Lomas
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Dior Couture Returns to Historical Roots By KELIN DILLON Perennial French fashion house Dior, now headed by Maria Grazia Chiuri, released its spring couture line last week, transporting lovers of all things sartorial back in time to a bygone era — a welcome escape from the torrid landscape of coronavirus-tinged modern life-as-we-know-it. Chiuri’s latest design effort harkens back to the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Back in 1947, when a then-42-year-old Christian Dior brought out his first collection of women’s fashion, the couturier wanted to create a classic, sensuous line of garments that were feminine, sophisticated and — most importantly — made women resemble inverted flowers. Dior’s unprecedented New Look revolutionized the world of fashion, with his newly opened Parisian design house
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid is offering a first-ever exhibit on classic Spanish art and the extraordinary designs of the late Basque fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga, whose square coats and undulating bubble skirts revolutionized the international fashion world in the mid-1940s. Referred to as “the master of us all” by Christian Dior and idolized by Coco
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