Our Monday Muses have ranged from women of great celebrity to personal inspirations of mine. It has been some time since we last celebrated a Monday Muse and it’s with pleasure that this week I find myself looking very...
Tonight, at the 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards, Bethann Hardison will be honored with the Founder’s Award, given in honor of the CFDA’s founder, Eleanor Lambert. It feels right to reflect this much deserved recognition (albeit in a smaller way!) with...
I was browsing the Internet recently, and came across a short essay entitled ‘The Opposite of Loneliness’. I happen to be perpetually intrigued, captivated by and concerned with the increasingly digitally over – connected / personally under-connected world we are...
Our Spring 2014 Campaign launched last month, featuring Liya Kebede PRABAL GURUNG is a brand just as much inspired by women of substance, grace and intangible beauty, as it is a brand established to inspire the same. As has often...
‘In Mustang, leave nothing but footprints..’ Mustang; a source of awe, a place of solace, with a history of myths and legends. Mustang is the former Kingdom of Lo, an ancient Tibetan kingdom that is now part of Nepal. Until...
Last weekend Angelina Jolie won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the fifth annual Governors Awards. As I reflected on the composure, elegance, dignity and compassion Jolie radiated standing on the podium, I began thinking about her life and career...
Much has been written and reported about Malala Yousafzai, the young champion of women’s education. On October 9th, 2012, aged 14 years old, Malala was shot in the head twice by the Taliban in Pakistan. She was returning home from...
This Thursday the New York City Ballet Fall 2013 Gala will open with costumes designed by Prabal Gurung. Having spent the last six months working with choreographer and dancer Justin Peck, immersing ourselves in the world of dance, movement and...
Last weekend, I went to see Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine featuring Cate Blanchett and I walked out instantly knowing who our next Monday Muse would be. Cate’s performance stayed with me for days. Haunting, compelling and raw, it was one...
There has always been a strange sense of antagonism between fashion and powerful women, a belief that women must sacrifice femininity to gain power, authority and respect — and that fashion especially is too frivolous a concern for serious women....
