Berlin is a work in progress. Over the last two decades, ripped-up tracks and a canopy of cranes have signalled its rebirth as a great city. If you haven't been here lately, you won't recognize the place. In the early 1900s, Berlin was an avant-garde...

She has also enjoyed strong representation on film, having been opulently portrayed by Marlene Dietrich and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Yet in historical fiction, there have been curiously few portraits of the long-reigning tsarina, with the exception of a...

For Fall 2012, old Hollywood glamour made its return, becoming new again for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Designers from Tadashi Shoji to new-comers to New York Fashion Week like Prete & Bruno all drew inspiration for their collection based...

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Our very-visual, (almost) chatter-free snap judgment of the day: guys and girls alike can refurbish a button up sitting idle in the back of the closet with a Marlene...

Ever since Coco Chanel blatantly liberated women from corsets and put them in a man’s style shirt, the crisp white dress shirt has taken on iconic fashion status. Audrey Hepburn made it look effortless and chic with the sleeves rolled up in the 1953...

The Season, his classic study of showbiz, screenwriter William Goldman relates a tale which takes place at the Museum of Modern Art in the mid 1950s. MoMA's film department had prepared a reel of highlights from Marlene Dietrich's films (chasing Gary...