Fashion
Fashioned-stamped in New York City style
By Briana Mirville The everyday, seen-on-the-street fashionistas of New York are unapologetically themselves. A woman wearing a flamingo pink tutu sitting over a white formal ball gown on a Tuesday may not be a remarkable occurrence for those used to the city, but for newcomers, it might spark inspiration. Using their curated clothes to express […]
Thrift-buying but at higher costs
By Isabella Hong Two young adults stood by a rack of button-up shirts at Thrift NYC on East 14th Street, sorting through their finds. One was holding three shirts in their hand. But, at $20 each, Andrew Bochnovich, 27, said he might only walk out with one. “If they were, like, $15, I’d feel a […]
Blacks own a fraction of beauty supply stores
By Keva Ellie From behind the counter, a smiling Bashir Amadou waved goodbye to one customer while conversing with three customers at Sahel Beauty Supply, the hair extension, wig and cosmetics shop he owns and has run for 23 years in Brooklyn. His customers feel like family, he said. Mainly, they are Black people, patrons […]
Innovating with 3-D digital fashion design
By Derek Sun Instead of sketching with a pencil and paper, Karina Ochoa designs her various clothing collections on a computer, using a special three-dimensional software that simulates real-life textures and colors of fabric and lets her skip what used to be the usual step of making a garment: Seeing if that fabric was suitable, […]
Self-styled, self-defined Muslim women
By Liyana Illyas Djenabou Diallo’s loose blue jeans were paired with a long-sleeve, flowy white shirt and a cornflower blue hijab. Mariam Sayeed wore her cream-colored, three-quarter-length sleeved T-shirt with blue jeans and a periwinkle colored hijab. Both are Muslim, dressed to reflect their religious beliefs that women should be more covered up in public, […]
Plain Jane? Or create your own fashion lane?
By Charles Joseph The mannequin in the window of Muji wears a camp-collared, navy shirt of 100% linen. Ryan Chung, the 29-year-old sales clerk in that boutique on Cooper Square, wears a navy linen shirt from Muji, too, but it’s an oxford button-down. “Plain, flat, very, uh, natural,” Chung said of what he was wearing […]
H&M works to undo “fast fashion” harms
By Chaeyoon Baek Surbhi Chaudhari was on her way to the cash register with a white shirt and blue denim jeans from H&M’s 12-year-old line of clothing made of recycled synthetic fabric or natural ones like cotton, linen and wool. “I try to buy sustainable clothes, and I avoid something which is not organic,” said […]