Ruby Redstone
Ruby Redstone is a fashion historian and contemporary fashion writer. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and New York Magazine, and within her own monthly newsletter Old Fashioned, which examines the intersection of fashion history and personal style. Ms. Redstone holds an MA in Fashion History from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an MA in the History of Art from the University of Saint Andrews.
T-shirts emblazoned with graphics of shrimp and studded handbags find their place amongst thousands of years of Judaica at the Jewish Museum’s latest show. Their introduction to the space is not an act of sacrilege but rather a dynamic curatorial choice in the new exhibition Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé.
Is the Lagerfeld found within Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty a man, content amongst cans of half-drunk soda, or is he a god, elevated to higher standards of aesthetic perfection? The Costume Institute seems unable to make up its mind on this matter.
