NYC Sentinel

American fashion designers’ innovation, craftsmanship displayed in new exhibit

By Amy Brittain
“American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion” opened in early November at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology in Chelsea. Curator Patricia Mears picked 90 dresses to illustrate the relationship between hands-on craftsmanship and the ideals of beauty in America – a departure from a common idea that U.S. fashion is simply a collection of concepts from abroad.

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Diplomacy … with diamonds

Madeleine Albright can give as good as she gets. Take the incident in 1994, when she criticized Saddam Hussein’s policies, and was called an “unparalleled serpent” in the Iraqi press. The former Secretary of State responded by arriving at her next meeting with Iraqi officials with a serpent on her shoulder: an 18-karat gold snake [...]

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A hustler aims for Hollywood

By Clare O’Connor
Jeremy Redleaf, the young creator and star of the TV series “Odd Jobs,” shot the show on his own dime in New York. He then found the perfect way to turn it into a viable business. He set up a job board similar to Craigslist on his Web site, OddJobNation.com, allowing employers to advertise for help with any odd jobs at all – and for the unemployed to find a day’s work.

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Juilliard and the job market

By Clare O’Connor
Violinist Jane Hunt realizes that to make any money as a musician, she must be savvy. Rather than resign herself to a precarious and often financially risky life of constant auditions for orchestras, she has taken a modern, populist approach to classical performance: marketing, networking, publicizing.

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