Isabel toledo

Woman's floor-length evening gown made of eggplant silk paper taffeta ruched into multiple, asymmetrical puffed tiers. Small squared yoke neckline of embroidered silk, with narrow shoulder straps.

Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.

RUVEN AFANADOR, photographer

The Museum at FIT is currently hosting a fantastic exhibition, Isabel Toledo: Fashon from the Inside Out. New York-based fashion designer Isabel Toledo was born in Cuba in 1961 and grew up in New Jersey. Though showing her first collection in New York in 1985, Toledo remained relatively unknown in mainstream fashion and was really only recognized by serious fashion folk until of course, First Lady, Michelle Obama, chose to wear a "Lemongrass" dress and matching overcoat ensemble by the…

One of the most exciting fashion designers in the United States, Cuban-born Isabel Toledo has been honored with a National Design Award from the Cooper- Hewitt Museum and a Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion, given by The Museum at FIT. Yet her name and work are recognized only by ...

there’s never been a dress with more inquiries than this isabel toledo dress, whose ruched tiered construction we described as an example of her “romantic mathematics”. the intricate/exquisite construction of the textile of this 1940s/50s raffia dress would def make it the predecessor/sister to that one— new in store now.