In June 2019, a shabby but otherwise unremarkable parcel arrived at the London home of Geoffrey Rayner and Richard Chamberlain. The collectors of 20th-century design had waited months for the package – so long, in fact, that they had almost given up hope of ever receiving the silk dress inside. […]
Lost
The legends and leaders we lost in 2022
Remembering the noteworthy people today who left their marks on the house textiles sector. Outlined in alphabetical buy by previous title: Longtime Leggett & Platt president and CEO Harry Mack Cornell Jr. took the reins of the business in 1960 and is credited with the its monumental advancement. Below his […]
The Fashion Figures We Lost in 2022
Katie Gallager, Fashion Designer, 35 Katie Gallagher, a black-clad blonde from Pennsylvania with a talent for pattern-making, was being buzzed about even before she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and moved to New York. The central dichotomy in her work was the balance between what she called […]