![]() ![]() ![]() Had a penchant for wearing Yohji Yamamoto, and they’d each change it up Stein, carrot-colored hair, cut short and sharp, as the chief. Looked like their own little tribe, with Selma, a glamorous Gertrude The matriarch: Selma (bornġ925) the daughter, Barbara (born 1950) the son, Jon (born 1952). When Charivari went belly-up, it was a brutal, final chapter to what hadīeen a fantastic story, full of passion, vision, hilarity, discoveries,Įxcitement, and an unforgettable family trio. Of one-of-a-kind boutiques-which started with a single small store in To this day people who loved their constellation Stab in the heart of experimental fashion and a blow to their beloved Throw in the towel in the late 1990s by filing for bankruptcy, it was a ![]() Had helped revolutionize retail and fashion itself. Previously unfashionable Upper West Side of Manhattan and in the process The Weiser family, that had brought avant-garde clothes to the That befell Charivari, an irrepressible mini fashion empire, created by One of the saddest fashion deaths in American retail history was the one Besides, stick around and check out the battles between the powerful fashion houses, watch the way the big stores fight with each other for designer exclusives, witness the fierce rivalry among the editors, cry for the firing and cheer for the hiring of talent, don’t forget the burnouts and meltdowns, and you’ll get the point-there is plenty of blood to mop up at the end of each season. Without poetic license there would be no fashion. How, one may ask, can sitting at a fashion show watching done-up models strut up and down the runway, while showing off the latest trends in frocks, leggings, jackets, and jumpsuits to the beat of Lady Gaga, have anything to do with such a serious subject? Of course it doesn’t really, but Fashion insiders sometimes use war metaphors to explain their world-they describe going to the collections in New York, Milan, and Paris as being in the trenches-and that can be a shocker. ![]()
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