http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/fashion Fashion news and features en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:45:01 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041562-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml WHEN the world was young, there was a phenomenon loosely referred to as the Magical World of Television. Pains were taken to dazzle the eye. Chandeliers appeared extra-prismatic, with mescaline auras. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041563-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml AROUND the time I graduated from college, my parents sold the house I grew up in. It came as a shock to me to learn that my bedroom, which I had always assumed would be preserved for future generations to visit -- sort of like a Presidential library with a Bobby Sherman poster on one wall -- was being dismantled. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041564-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml LIKE millions of Americans, Marisa Tomei used to play with a Hula-Hoop as a child. And like most of those same Americans, she hadn't hooped since. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041565-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041566-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- The wall is pitch black, yet as eyes adjust to the dark, outfits appear like cats in the night: the gleam of satin on a lapel, the sheen of a button, the outline of "le smoking" -- the tuxedo suit. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041328-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml There was a time, not all that long ago, when luxury fashion was found only in a magazine's glossy pages or a trip to Avenue Montaigne, Bond Street and the like. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041329-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- Sometimes a fashion moment is defined as much by what is not on the runway as by the catwalk favorites. And with only one more day of autumn/winter 2010 in Paris before the season's close, dressy evening clothes are fading from the limelight. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041330-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml Paris Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041331-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- Over the years, the designer Andrew Gn has built up his own fashion universe of opulence and elegance that he inhabits so easily. This season, his inspiration came directly from his own home and a Louis XV commode in his study, as well as the book "Persian Letters" by Montesquieu. With those keystones, there is always a risk of going overboard on the gilding -- but that did not happen to Mr. Gn. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041332-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml Paris Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041194-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml Saturday-Sunday: Lintons at the Waterfront will hold a prom trunk show to preview the newest prom fashions from Beyonce's House of Dereon, Jovani, Aidan Mattox, Sean, Nicole Miller and Xeniya by Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10067/1041097-60.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml The Academy Awards' red carpet took twists and turns where couture had gone before but hasn't gone for a while. No, Lady Gaga wasn't there, and Bjork's swan remained in hiding. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:26:00 -0500