The Midtown Gazette

A Columbia Journalism School newsroom covering Midtown Manhattan in the heart of New York City.


Tag: fashion
  • Fashion Magazines May Outlast Print Peers

    Fashion Magazines May Outlast Print Peers

    The debate over the future of print media continues, even as “print is dead” becomes a modern-day cliché. But the future of fashion magazines may not be so bleak, according to industry professionals and the optimistic owners of a local magazine retail business.

  • The End of the – Belt – Line

    The End of the – Belt – Line

    Like 80 percent of the businesses that have left the garment district since 1980, accessories manufacturer Terry Schwartz is in danger of disappearing as more and more garment related business is conducted abroad.

  • More Designers Rely on Online Marketplaces to Bolster Sales

    More Designers Rely on Online Marketplaces to Bolster Sales

    Over the past decade, fashion designers have had more abundant and affordable options to sell their lines online. Designers are getting larger audiences online, but will it be enough to launch young designers into fashion stardom?

  • Remaking the Garment District

    Remaking the Garment District

    It takes a team to raise the Garment District. More than 70 urban planners, fashion designers, architects and community members have launched Making Midtown, a project that aims to provide solutions to Manhattan’s threatened fashion and manufacturing hub in midtown by 2012. Making Midtown is the second phase in an effort to bring the stakeholders…

  • Stored Fur Coats See Another Season of Daylight

    Stored Fur Coats See Another Season of Daylight

    As Fahrenheit lowers in Manhattan, people are flocking to the fur vaults to have their coats taken out from cold storage.

  • Design Competition Connects Fashion with Architecture in Pop-up Store

    Design Competition Connects Fashion with Architecture in Pop-up Store

    Architecture and fashion are typically considered two separate forms of design with little to do with each other, but Faris Al-Shathir is working to change that notion. Al-Shathir is director and co-founder of BOFFO, a non-profit organization that works to convert empty, unused spaces in New York City into art. This fall, the organization is…

  • Bloggers Take Fashion’s Night Out

    Bloggers Take Fashion’s Night Out

    Bloggers have often been hailed as the new journalists, giving their readers up to date news when they need it most. Yet bloggers seem to have escaped the same criticism that journalists face when it comes to accepting free products.