Alison Cohn

1 week ago | graziamagazine.com | Alison Cohn

“I’ve tried to be minimal, but it never works out because I just love embellishment, detail, and vintage clothes,” says New York’s queen of bohemian fashion Anna Sui when I meet the designer in her fantasia of a Garment District showroom with red floors, purple walls, and black-lacquered Victorian furniture a few days before the start of New York Fashion Week in early February.

1 week ago | wmagazine.com | Alison Cohn

Grace Kelly on the set of ‘High Society’ wearing her 10.47-carat Cartier engagement ring. Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images. Special Thanks to The Princess Grace Foundation. In the final gallery of the new Cartier exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, there’s a brilliant display of 18 tiaras, including a never-before-shown opal model commissioned by the Marchioness of Hartington and an Art Deco diamond and platinum halo worn by Begum Aga Khan III.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Alison Cohn

4 hours agoWhile plenty of fashion trends continue to come and go, there are some overarching rules that have dictated our outfits for years. But in my opinion, they aren't always fair. Take the "never mix brown and black" rule, for instance. Avoiding this so-called fashion faux pas might've been drilled into …

1 week ago | wmagazine.com | Alison Cohn

A long display case in the American Museum of Natural History’s special exhibition, Cosmic Splendor, illustrates the astronomical concept of stellar evolution, the process by which stars age, changing size and color over their lifespans of millions to billions of years. It’s a fairly typical topic for the renowned New York science institution, which houses such specimens as a 15.5-ton meteorite and a 4.3 billion-year-old zircon crystal.

1 week ago | lofficielusa.com | Alison Cohn

FashionTo mark the anniversary, the house has launched a new range of lucky-charm medallions that pay homage to founder Christian Dior. Les Rhumbs, Christian Dior’s childhood home set on the windswept cliffs of Normandy, takes its name from a naval term denoting the 32 divisions of a compass rose.