Amy Larocca

Articles by Amy Larocca

Bill Blass Acolyte Steven Slowik Tries to Revive 80's Label

by Amy Larocca
Mar. 26th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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If 10021 were an autonomous nation, then the retirement of the 78-year-old designer Bill Blass last  read more »

Hello ! Somebody Gave Me Your Number

by Amy Larocca
Mar. 26th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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My grandmother, Alma, of Washington, D.C., and Boca Raton, Fla., believes that it is choice that has  read more »

An Auction House Scorecard

by Kate Kelly, Jason Gay and Amy Larocca
Mar. 5th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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After decades of pristine respectability, Christie's and Sotheby's are as disgraced as dowagers in a  read more »

Majorcan Designer Miguel Adrover Wows W.W.D. by Mocking Big Labels

by Amy Larocca
Feb. 27th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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It can happen any season. Somebody-then everybody-decides there's a young star designer out there.  read more »

The Girdle's Back, and Gwyneth's Got It!

by Amy Larocca
Jan. 23rd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Girdles, back when women wore them at breakfast, to the market, to bridge, were suits of armor.  read more »

Hej-Hej, Gap! Sexy, Serious Swedes Invade Manhattan With H&M Stores

by Amy Larocca
Nov. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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On the fourth floor of an office building on Fifth Avenue, 50 New Yorkers were preparing to depart f  read more »

Thomas Meehan, Writer … Horst of Fifth Avenue

by George Gurley and Amy Larocca
Nov. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Thomas Meehan, Writer Thomas Meehan wrote the book for the musical Annie and won a Tony for it.  read more »

The Cruel Shoe Master of New York

by Amy Larocca
Nov. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Foxy Brown, the fashionable, tart-tongued rap diva, couldn't walk.  read more »

Arnault Eyeballs Calvin Klein from Glass House on 57th Street

by Amy Larocca
Oct. 24th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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A week after Calvin Klein announced that he had hired LazardFrères & Company to help him consider t  read more »

J. Crew Bonfire: My Brother Meets Agnès B.

by Amy Larocca
Sep. 26th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Josh had not bought any clothes since, we think, highschool.  read more »

The Fashion Flu

by Amy Larocca
Sep. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Fashion week was just getting started, but the models in Diane Von Furstenberg's West 12th Street ca  read more »

Donna Karan Builds Her Dream Store

by Amy Larocca
Aug. 15th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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The two-story-high, graffitoed images of giant model couple Esther Canadas and Mark Vanderloo on the  read more »

The Golfer

by Amy Larocca
Jun. 6th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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"He was not a practical joker nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and  read more »

Old-School Menswear Designer Don Robbie Goes Hog Wild for the Redneck Look

by Amy Larocca
Aug. 23rd, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Don Robbie, Mall VoyeurOnce upon a time, Don Robbie lived next to Brigitte Bardot and her sister rig  read more »

Why Viagra Could Be Good For Endangered Species

by Jeff Wise and Amy Larocca
Jun. 21st, 1998, 8:00 pm
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There's one possible side effect of Viagra that hasn't really been spoken about."My own feeling is t  read more »

Yes, He's Rosie's Brother, and He Wants a Senate Seat

by Amy Larocca
May. 10th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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On one of the last nights he would spend wondering whether his political plans and ambitions would b  read more »