Mario Marsciano’s designs raise eyebrows. ”A lot of people who see my apartment get a strange look on their face,” he says. “It’s filled with toys.”

“I started to have a couple rooms full of them, and instead of just putting them in ... Read More »

Local fashion designer Bob Bland is on a mission to transform “Made in the USA” into this season’s most coveted label, beginning with on-the-rise talent here in New York City, and Manufacture New York, which she says will be the city’s first all-in-one fashion design house and factory, is the way to do it. Read More »

If genetic markers for creative talent were detectable, you’d find them in Kim Mesches‘ DNA. The 23-year-old fashion designer is the grandson of Arnold Mesches, a visual artists who’s spent the past six decades shock and awing the art world. It was among his grandfather’s works for the retrospective that Kim found inspiration for his fall 2013 women’s wear collection, the first from his new label, KM Collective, which he’ll present at Public Assembly as part of Raw Natural Born Artists Present: Marvel this Thursday, April 11. Read More »

At Marlow Goods, Kate Huling takes the farm-to-table approach her husband Andrew Tarlow applies to food–he being the Brooklyn restaurateur with a locavore bent behind Marlow & Sons, Diner, Marlow & Daughters, Roman’s and Reynard, in the Wythe Hotel–and applies that ethos to fashion. She started the leather goods company four years ago as way to use every last part of the animals that were passing through the kitchen and onto plates in Tarlow’s restaurants. Read More »