By Alexandra MacAaron

Nora and Delia Ephron’s new play features glowing casts and true-feeling stories, says our reviewer. It also gets us musing about how we think about our clothes.

From the Editors

Betty and the Women of SNL: that was our first highlight (see her monologue below). But WVFC’s roundup also includes lots you can still see, with treats for museum goers and lovers of exotic automobiles.

We woke up this morning to hear National Public Radio begin its all-day coverage. Some of us had made our bets on who would win, for our officr pools or elsewhere; some, like WVFC tech columnist Rachel Rawlings, used the free Oscars app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Then our planned office Oscar party got away [...]

There are many of us for whom the secular Christmas is fraught with landmines of memories. In our dysfunctional ways we learn to manage these memories. We avoid the holiday, we suffer through it, or we make it an MGM spectacular event. I chose the Hollywood option. I loved making Christmas special when I was [...]

December temperatures are sending those of us in the East running off to our sock drawer and wondering if those wool tights we bought last year are now a) fashionable, b) hole-free and c) warm enough to stem the wind. It’s fitting, then, that costume expert and WVFC contributor Helen Uffner decided to look into [...]

Some WVFC readers might remember a Nanette Lepore fashion catwalk we embedded last year for one of our Pat Allen’s posts; the very last dress in it, after all the signature Lepore pieces, was a T-shirt saying simply: SAVE THE GARMENT CENTER. It passed by so quickly, you might not have had time to ask: [...]

Throughout her 50-year history, every bit of Barbie’s 11-inch-tall form has been the subject of scrutiny and debate. Originally introduced in 1959 as “a teen-age model,” her history has always been linked to the fashion world, and has become a tangled part of women’s girlhood memories and body images. (On Barbie’s actual 50th birthday in [...]

My husband invited me to dinner last week. He made reservations at the finest restaurant in our neck of the woods: a white tablecloth sort of place, with a dining terrace positioned for viewing unobscured sunsets over the Pacific Ocean and designed for lovers anticipating the night. At last! Having the older kids in college [...]

In response to Dr. Allen’s visual assault by an overexposed jogger the other morning, I have to say that it seems true: No lower limit has been discovered as far as poor taste is concerned. This is especially true here in New York City, where in the past few decades the Duchess of Windsor’s famous [...]

Having spent much of my career in the world of fashion as an editor and journalist for Harper’s Bazaar, owner of an accessory boutique and as a personal style consultant translating fashion trends into wearable possibilities, I am intrigued by the accessory trends over the past several years. First it was the oversized embellished handbag, [...]