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A Summer Summary
It hasn’t been the most prolific week here at Closettour. It has, however, been a busy summer, and now as the daylight hours wane, so do the dollars from my McCormick Foundation grant. Here, some...
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Yvon Chouinard: Cat Food, Climbing and Commitment
for TakePart.com: Wednesday, at the Sustainable Textiles Conference in New York, Yvon Chouinard, founder of outdoor super-brand Patagonia, told industry insiders from brands like Nike, H&M and...
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Wild on South Jersey: Muskrats! For New York Magazine
I know we haven’t had much carnage here at Closettour, but it’s 2012, and there’s a first for everything. I recently shadowed John Zander, muskrat trapper extraordinaire, on his mission through a...
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Free-Range Fur – in the Feb. 2012 VICE fashion issue
If you’ve seen me around town this Fashion Week, I’ve probably been wearing the red fox fur vest pictured below. But there’s a long story that doesn’t appear in that picture. I went into the...
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Sex and Power, Dripping from Trees: Brazilian Latex Fetish-wear (in the...
photo: Matheus Chiaratti My latest adventure following clothing to its source took me to a remote corner of northeastern Brazil, where some Swiss expats started Fetisso, a manufacturer of kinky...
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Closet Case Study: Now A Column for The Cut!
“Closet Case Study,” my new monthly column about resourcefully revamping one’s wardrobe launches this week at The Cut. The idea is that with limited cash, closet space, and environmental resources,...
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For Medium: Fast Fashion, Unraveled
Just after the catastrophic collapse of the garment factories at Rana Plaza, a friend asked me where she thought she may be able to combine her desire to make a positive difference with her gift and...
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Closet Case Study: Custom Dyeing at the Cut
photos by Melissa Hom for New York Magazine When I was a kid, I told my mom I wanted socks the color of the sky just before the stars came out. (She tried to find me some, which were a little green,...
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Spotlight on Production: Suno’s Nadiyah Bradshaw-Spencer
As many of you know, I think the fashion industry’s production practices should earn as much attention as the designs. To that end, I interviewed Suno’s Nadiyah Bradshaw-Spencer (one of my former...
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Swimsuits and Transparency
Okay, today’s title is a bit of a misnomer. This post is not about see-through swimwear, but rather a roundup of a few recent pieces. The first was an open-letter I wrote to J.Crew design director...
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For a Limited Time Only? NY Fashion Week’s Best Designers Can Still Make It Here
As always at New York Fashion Week, there’s been a lot of talk about our city’s role in the industry – now changing as quickly as you can say “fast fashion.” The consensus seems to be that while Paris...
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Locavore Perfume: Foraging for Fragrance in Brooklyn
A year or two ago, my friend Jocelyn came to visit me in Brooklyn from California, where we went to college together, and brought me a gift. BIG SUR Wild Harvested Organic Soap read the lettering on...
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For a Limited Time Only? NY Fashion Week’s Best Designers Can Still Make It Here
As always at New York Fashion Week, there’s been a lot of talk about our city’s role in the industry – now changing as quickly as you can say “fast fashion.” The consensus seems to be that while Paris...
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