How New Yorkers Dressed the World: An Upper East Side tour about Fashion

Join a veteran producer of Project Runway for an insider’s take on New York’s history of fashion. New York's unique mix of industry, innovation, wealth, and art has made it a global capital for style and manufacturing, and the birthplace of Vogue Magazine, the Met Gala, and Fashion Week.

Fashion isn’t just clothing…

Fashion is the story of art, war, money, ambition, innovation, love, scandal, immigration, fame, and style. In other words, it’s the story of New York.

But if you think New York was always a global fashion capital, think again - it took nearly a century for New York's to steal that tiara from Paris.

Join me — a veteran producer of Project Runway — for a walk through Manhattan's East 60s and 70s, where Gilded Age mansions share sidewalks with the boutiques of Tom Ford, The Row, and Ralph Lauren.

Within these two miles, the fashions created and worn here have reflected every cultural, political, and economic shift — and quietly served as the"Cerulean Blue" moment for a whole world of people, whether they love fashion or couldn't care less.

Topics include …….

• A 100-year history of New York’s culture through the lens of this epic and varied industry.

• Origins of Vogue Magazine, The Met Gala, NYFW, Project Runway, department stores, full-length mirrors, and fashion labels.

• The connections between style and global events like war, immigration, and technological innovation.

• The relationship between the artists who create the designs, the labor that creates the clothes, and the people who wear them.

• Stories about designers Christian Siriano, Betsey Johnson, Ralph Lauren, Halston, Tom Ford, Elizabeth Hawes, and more.

• Really pretty pictures of dresses