Snow flurries on the morning of Saturday, February 11 weren’t exactly welcome for out-of-town fashionistas attending Fashion Week in New York; but for the Ruffian Fall/Winter 2012 Fashion Show at Lincoln Center, the snow was just right for the warm, tail

Perhaps the most heralded collaboration between German expressionist director Josef Von Sternberg and his favorite star, Marlene Dietrich, 1930’s The Blue Angel deals frankly with the perils of sexual repression and moral hypocrisy. Emil Jannings stars a

“FIDM Museum and Galleries' yearly salute to the artistry of costume design is back. Over 100 outfits from 2011 films are on display, including those from all five Academy Award nominees for Best Costume Design. The Art Deco-era frocks Mark Bridges desig

Absolutely loving Peter Som’s F/W 2012 runway looks! The collection felt super contemporary but clearly inspired from a place of the past. “Marlene Dietrich’s balance of smouldering femininity and masculine garb was the starting point for the mood,” expl

Donna Karan is undeniably a veteran, high in the rankings with Miuccia Prada, Carolina Herrera, and Rei Kawakubo. In the world of womanswear it’s almost too easy to neglect the plight and consistent success of female designers, but Karan and her peers ha

The trees are a crucial part of the capital - Marlene Dietrich sang, “As long as the old trees blossom on Unter den Linden, nothing can overcome us, Berlin remains Berlin.” The devastation and privation of World War Two left almost nothing, most trees in