American Fashion 1976-2026: Fifty Years of Reinvention

If you can dream it, you can do itWalt Disney Charles Frederick Worth bustle dress ca 1885 Iris van Herpen, 2022 In those few, direct words Walt Disney captured the spirit of America. The very founding of the country was a dream realized. Fashion, too, allows the individual or an entire generation to dream of […]

American Independence Wore Many Looks: 1776–1876

“The journey of a hundred years begins with a single step”Lao Tzu The Declaration of Independence was but a single step that created political freedom from Britain. In the hundred years to follow (1776-1876), there were many more steps to create a uniquely American culture and style, but that did not necessarily mean complete independence. […]