Rachel Elspeth Gross

5 days ago | forbes.com | Rachel Elspeth Gross

Founded in 1889, Lanvin is the oldest haute couture house still in business, and the esteemed maison’s founder is the focus of her first American exhibition at the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta. ‘Jeanne Lanvin: Haute Couture Heritage’ is open to the public until August 31, 2025, spanning the years between 1910 and 1947 the show features more than 60 pieces of haute couture history.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Rachel Elspeth Gross

“Intellectually I understand my work in one way and just intuitively, I understand it in a different way,” Linda Hall said to me. We met a couple of times over the last month or so to talk about her work. She currently has an exhibition at the Thomasville Center For The Arts, Surface Tension, Hall’s work on her own as well as her collaborations with photographer Becki Rutta. Hall is an artist, she works largely with textiles and in her hands anything at all can become a notion.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Rachel Elspeth Gross

The summer that Isabella Chan and Katie Xue were designing Amoy New York’s best-selling Jane dress, the ladies found themselves a theme song of sorts. They kept listening to December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night), by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Rachel Elspeth Gross

“We're visual storytellers, Kerry Weinrauch told me when we met to talk about her work on Watson, a new series for CBS/Paramount by Craig Sweeny, which is connected to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes universe. “When you're helping to tell a story, before an actor even opens their mouth and says a line, the audience is already deciding who that person is by what they're wearing, like what their social standing is, whether they're good or bad.

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Rachel Elspeth Gross

As much as I would like to, I cannot tell you exactly how many costumes were handmade for The House of David, an excellent new series you can find on Amazon Prime. When I met with the show’s costume designer, Mayou Trikerioti, it was literally the first question I asked. She couldn’t tell you the total number either, though that’s not for lack of trying. When production was wrapping up, in the costume department group chat, Trikerioti asked the costume team to help her tally everything up.