Designers
Yayoi Kusama, High Priestess of Polka Dots
The avant-garde Japanese artist attains retrospective status—and embarks on a fashion collaboration with Louis Vuitton
Making Objects: A Dispatch From the Future of Small-Batch Manufacturing
A pair of young design entrepreneurs are building a small-batch manufacturing company in Chicago
Honoring Bill Moggridge
From designing the first laptop to defining human-computer interaction, Bill Moggridge spent his career breaking new ground in design and technology
New York Fashion Week, Past and Present
Since the mid-1940s, models of perfection in designer clothes have graced Manhattan runways every autumn
Top 10 Chanelisms: Coco’s Wise Words to Mark Her Birthday
Today the French fashion designer's observations seem wise, clever or amusingly dated
Through the Lens of Cosmo Covers: Remembering Helen Gurley Brown
With her magazine, the longtime editor sold sex as well as the latest, often provocative fashions
Q&A: Jayson Musson Breaks Down Coogi Sweaters
With the '80s and '90s status-symbol clothing a bargain on eBay, the Brooklyn artist buys, disassembles and reconstructs them to make abstract "paintings"
Remembering Bloomingdale’s Chairman, the Dearly Departed Martin Traub, 1925-2012
The department store chain's visionary executive beat the competition in exotic fashion flair
Swimsuit Series, Part 3: Is Today Truly the 66th Anniversary of the First Bikini?
The two-piece bathing suit got skimpier and more scandalous in 1946 Paris
If the Interstate System Were Designed by a Slime Mold
How a brainless, single-celled organism created a startlingly efficient route map for U.S. highways
A By-The-Numbers Look at American Real Estate
An index to houses great and small over the centuries
Inside the World of Alessi
Hidden away in northern Italy’s lake district, the design factory has influenced the look of American kitchens for decades
Intelligent Designer
Charles Harrison, former industrial designer at Sears, Roebuck and Company, created practical innovations that touched many lives
Interview with Charles Harrison
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt honors the prolific industrial designer with its Lifetime Achievement Award
The Splendor of Greene and Greene
A new exhibition celebrates the work of brothers Charles and Henry Greene, masters of American Arts and Crafts architecture
For Hire: Holiday Window Designer
Decking the halls with Barney’s creative director Simon Doonan
35 Who Made a Difference: Julie Taymor
Transcending genres, the designer and director creates shamanistic theater
Second Nature
More and more, innovative scientists are turning to the natural world for inspiration...and design solutions
Shaker Works Gallery
A compendium of thoughts on the Shakers from some quotable notables
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