Somehow even at 93, journalist, fashion critic, and Fashion Group International’s creative director Marylou Luther’s thirst for fashion and its relevance remains unquenched.
The New York-based Luther still summers in her hometown of Cambridge, Nebraska, driving around town and playing gin rummy with her best friend Donna. Wherever she is, Luther never stops working, routinely receiving 100 emails daily from readers of her “Clotheslines” column. “When people ask, ‘Will I ever retire?’” Luther said, “I always say, ‘No, I love to write.’ Also, I know if I stop doing everything, I’m done.
Early on in the discussion, the audience sang “Happy Birthday” to the April-born Luther and Toledo. He described leaving as a child with his family in 1967 — years after the Cuban Revolution. “It took a while to get out. All Cubans entered through Miami. After they gave you vaccinations four or five days later, they sent you off especially to depopulated cities. We were almost headed to New Orleans. But we had family in west New York. If a family claimed you, you got to go there.
The son of a tailor, Toledo said his father helped cut the custom Isabel Toledo dress that Michelle Obama wore to her husband Barack’s first presidential inauguration. “I could draw before I could talk or walk. That was my way of communicating and it still is,” he said, adding that at 13 he fell for Isabel immediately in high school Spanish class. “I don’t know if you have ever experienced love at first sight. But it’s the real deal. I had no doubt.
Later through a friend, Toledo helped his future wife line up work sewing and repairing garments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. “Walking through The Met looking at all these dummies wrapped in beautiful linens, she realized, ‘Fashion is what time looks like’ — every era, every decade, every century, you could tell by how people dressed where you were if they dropped you down from a spaceship.”.: She was the most cooperative.
label, and afterwards all of the merchandise was given to charity. His conception of how to show clothes was unique.”He was so sharp. He was like a sponge. He was really good about taking what was happening and putting it back out there.He was one of the first American designers to go to Paris [for Yves Saint Laurent], and that was just a coup to design haute couture. Nothing could have mattered more to a New York designer in those days.
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