Valerie Steele, the author of “In the Corset: A Cultural History,” dissects the relationship between women and fashion through the ages. Plus, how Michelle Obama might be changing everything.

Fashion historian Valerie Steele recaps New York Fashion Week 2009, outlining its major shortcoming.

Valerie Steele, chief curator of the Museum at FIT, gives an update on the status of staple items that make or break an outfit.

A conversation with fashion historian and chief curator of the Museum at FIT.

Big Think Interview with Harriet Mays Powell.

The fashion director at New York Magazine shares her fear of becoming obsolete in a youth-driven industry.

Harriet Mays Powell tells us what it’s like to get dressed when you’re the one setting the trends.

With magazine sales plummeting and alternative, privately-funded publications on the rise, Harriet Mays Powell discusses the future of the behemoth glossy.

Lady Gaga at Marc Jacobs, wearing…Marc Jacobs—Harriet Mays Powell explores the symbiotic relationship between fashion and celebrity.

Harriet Mays Powell dissects the complex relationship between the fashion capitals of the world and their clothes.

The fashion director at New York Magazine breaks down the hits, misses and total disappointments from what was overall a good fashion week for NYC.

With the advent of “Karl Lagerfeld for H&M” and eminently affordable designers like Diane Von Furstenburg and Tory Burch, Harriet Mays Powell thinks we may have seen the end of […]

In some erudite, parallel-universe version of our world, no earthlings ever form opinions about America’s next invasion or diplomatic overture without scrutinizing their atlases, poring over press accounts in seven […]

Imagine a device that would resemble an ordinary book, where 50-100 pages are made of electronic “ePaper” with “old” paper feel texture plus the advantages of gadgets like the Amazon's Kindle: virtual bookshop, subscriptions, etc. You buy every book you want from the eStore and the content is updated on this device. rnrnHere you have the old book reading/feeling experience with the advantages of today’s kindle-like features. Not an eBook but a "feelBook".

Es sobre el período 1970-1990 en Chile. Trata de la historia de un chico que ve transformarse su país y que decide tomar las riendas del destino con sus propias manos. Cuando niño está en una democracia, luego viene el golpe de Estado de Pinochet, y vive su adolescencia y juventud sometido a esa dictadura. hasta que llega la democracia, la cual es una conquista que para lograrse también contó con su participación.

Gay Talese describes the tobacco-filled and liquor-drenched newsrooms of The New York Times in the sixties—where men passed out on typewriters, and no one was quite sure just how the […]

Since growing up in his parents’ tailoring and dressmaking shop in New Jersey, the writer has maintained a taste for family craftsmanship.

The constraints of reality, Gay Talese argues, have turned many great writers away from non-fiction. Yet, with the proper patience and engagement with one’s subject, those bound to the facts […]

Sex, claims Gay Talese, has always been everywhere—it’s just a matter of how one has to go about finding it. Here he explains how, while there have been few changes […]

Gay Talese describes the deleterious effects that recording devices, hollowed expense accounts, and an emphasis on ‘indoor life’ have had on the writing process.