Kristin Knox

As you can probably tell (or most likely have seen or read for yourself, depending on how closely you involve yourself with the show milieu), the street style thing of late has transcended to a whole new dimension of CRAY. So much so that this season I even witnessed a...

When I was still ensconced in the Ivory Towers of academia, the "absent-minded" appropriation of someone else's words into one's own essay for the submitting amounted to the deployment of fear-inducing word followed by one career-wrecking remedial action. Those would be plagiarism and expulsion, respectively. And I don't just mean...

If I had a quarter for every time I described my profession/lifestyle to people just to have them come back to me and quip, "Why, you're just like Carrie Bradshaw!" I'd have more Manolos than I'd know what to do with. Sex and style, those two little monosyllabic words that,...

The world is an unstable place right now, even more precarious than the revolving-door-situation at Dior or tottering in this season's highest platform pump (please read: sarcasm), so I find it quite moralising, for once, that my fellow countrymen, in particular, my fellow American liberals long accused of all talk...

As we find ourselves in the middle of yet another New York Fashion Week (of the Spring Summer 2012 installation), my fifth season, to be precise, I find myself once again pondering the riddle of the runway show seating chart. Like that of the Sphinx, the answer is at once...

When French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes declared the author dead in 1967,
shock waves reverberated throughout the literary stratosphere. Today, I'd like to posit a similarly outlandish claim as it pertains to this dear fashion industry of ours: the trend, as we plunge towards Autumn/Winter 2011/12...

I've just returned from a four day stint at Berlin Fashion Week's Spring Summer 2012 installment, where, amongst the perpetual land of the German hipsters, I was reminded of a fact that's not particularly novel, but worth a wee rumination: the canvas bag as coveted fashion currency. The...

The question of racism and fashion is one that comes around every couple of years, like palazzo pants. And since March, thanks to the toxic tirade of John Galliano, the industry has once again assumed the position in front of the firing squad and the age-old discussion has returned to...