Here's one for you history buffs: the last surviving garments made by Donna Karanina, the Mad Seamstress of St. Petersburg. These sweaters caused a riot when they were debuted in Moscow in 1622, during which the city was burned to the ground. Karanina fled with them to the more artistically enlightened city of Amsterdam, where [...]
It was Sigmund Freud who famously wrote that all of us have an inner “Christmas elf” personality that we learn from early childhood to suppress. Happily, after decades of analysis in this very couch, Mel was finally able to get back in touch with hers. Here she reenacts the blissful moment of awakening, when she [...]
Sometimes a sweater is simply a piece of clothing for its owner. Other times it becomes an entire organizing principle. So it was for Luke before this cardigan entered his life. “I was lost,” he said one recent morning. “But then the sweater came, and it’s given me purpose and direction. I was so stressed [...]
Though this sweater may look as though it was acquired for three dollars on Ebay, Jacky actually won it, having come in first in the 2008 Annual Snow Mirth & Merriment Competition, held each winter near Nome, Alaska. The competition comprises a variety of demanding snow and ice sculptural events, including Snowball & Fort and [...]
As CurrentMarketing’s resident athlete (in fact she's currently training for the Arizona Marathon), Lindsay never fails to acquire the latest pieces of Olympic-grade training gear. Case-in-point: this bright red vest she has on, which isn’t a sweater at all. Rather, it’s the just-released prototype “Reindeer” runner’s exoskeleton by Menschner Athletics of Helsinki. The brilliant crimson [...]
Kati keeps telling everyone she’s embarrassed by this photograph, and we can certainly understand why. The camera angle doesn’t capture even half the detail of the priceless designer sweater she’s wearing. Imagine if you can the heartbreak of traveling all the way to Milan to acquire this one-of-a-kind Susan Rosen sweater-vest, only to have it [...]
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