This week on Profiles, we have the privilege of sitting down with fashion historians and the hosts of Unravel: A Fashion Podcast. We talked to them about their paths into fashion academia, how the art world should change, and how we can get there.
Editors’ note: This interview was originally conducted in Summer 2017 using information from Zeng’s previous brand The Creative. It has been updated in May 2018 to reflect her new brand, Choosy. Jessie Zeng is the founder of The Creative, her new fashion line which features sustainable trend-based collections. Based out of the Upper West Side […]Read Post ›
My first lesson in architecture was that buildings are built by those with money and power. This is a thought that I am sure comforts and flatters Donald Trump immensely, as he seems to think of himself as a powerful man and he has built a lot of buildings.
Ghosts are not the stuff of fairytales. Vibrant personalities leave their impressions on the places they inhabit. Many of these spaces suffer destruction, alteration, redecoration—look at any number of “home museums” and you’ll find period furniture, recreating the ambiance of a place and time. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum looks a bit like a haunted […]Read Post ›
What is a wall anyways? What should it do? If you answered that it should hold up the roof, you would be right-if you lived before 1900.
Although I have always considered myself a Bostonian, I have never lived in the city proper-until now.
