Fashion – Ennis Smith

Art, Books, Current Affairs, Fashion, Film, Literature, Music, My back pages, Politics, Television, Theater

Gone Girls

August 25, 2013

Some are born to leave their mark. Lately we’ve lost so many who have that late summer feels a touch more autumnal; now we have to get used to life without Eydie Gorme, Elmore Leonard, Dennis Farina, Emile Griffith, Walter DeMaria, Virginia E. Johnson, Esther Williams, James Gandolfini, and Michael Ansara, not to mention Helen…

Fashion, My back pages, New York

Finding a suit, and myself

September 16, 2012

Like all great romances it started slowly. First it was underwear; later I graduated to socks and ties, little wardrobe resuscitators for a single guy on a budget. I found myself returning, a little shy, but intrigued, wondering if this was the way out of my J. Crew-Gap-Thrift Shop-Army-Navy fashion esthetic. After all I’d become…

Art, Fashion, Film, Photography

Shutter Chic

May 14, 2009

The man who inspired my favorite film musical now has an exhibit of his fashion photographs at New York’s International Center of Photography. AVEDON FASHION 1944-2000 runs May 15 through September 6. Whether Richard Avedon was shooting models or indigents, few could couple style and subtext so beguilingly. Viva Black and White! Above, Veruschka, dress by…

Fashion, Film, Music, Television, Theater

no more siren songs…

December 26, 2008

Eartha Kitt 1927-2008

Art, Dance, Fashion, Museums/Galleries, Music

Bye Bo, Bye Yves…

June 3, 2008

Two ultras, cultural touchstones in wildly disparate ways. Seems like all the cool people are checking out of this world. Imagine–heaven must be hoppin’