Modest Fashion is having a moment. From London catwalks, which hosted the first branded “Modest Fashion Week” in February this year, to gyms and running ...

Mary Davis
Mary Davis is Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the author of Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism (2006), Erik Satie (2008), Waiting for A Train: Jimmie Rodgers’s America (2009), and Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev’s Dancers and Paris Fashion (2010).
Is There Really No Smart Writing on Women’s Fashion?
By Mary Davis
Reading Women in Clothes is like spending Saturday afternoon at Nordstrom Rack. Massive, chaotic, and noisy, both are messy in a way that could be inadvertent but could be purposeful: is this ...
Thérésa Tallien’s Legacy: Style on the rue de Babylone
By Mary Davis
Since the 18th century, the rue de Babylone has been a site for salons that bring the haute monde into contact with innovative artists ...