High Style: Don’t-Miss NYC Events for Fashion and Design Fans

By Troy Segal

You love the look – be it on a person’s body or in a room. In June, New York City is filled with talks, lectures, and events for would-be fashion designers and interior decorators.

June 4. Where is fashion going—and what are the new ways of analyzing trends? At the 92nd Street Y, a panel of style bloggers hash-tags it out with Dirk Standen, editor-in-chief of Style.com

June 12. Turn-of-the-20th-century New York: a Gilded Age, when too much was never enough. Explore the opulent clothing, accessories and furniture at this daylong event, guided by the curators of the Museum of the City of New York.

For something a little more contemporary: Join fashion designer Mary Ping as she deconstructs the ideology behind, and the fashion references in, her capsule clothing collections at the Museum of Arts and Design.

A collection of James’s ball gowns, 1948. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, Beaton / Vogue / Condé Nast Archive. Copyright © Condé Nast

June 22. Like the libidinous lines of the gowns of designer Charles James, on view in the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute’s hit exhibit, Charles James: Beyond Fashion? This lecture tells you how he made ’em, inspired by the human body itself.

Giacomo Balla: Abstract Speed + Sound (Velocità astratta + rumore), 1913–14. © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome. Photo: Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

June 24. In the early 1900s, the decorative arts were galvanized by Italian Futurism, a movement whose aesthetic celebrated “the beauty of speed.” Catch up to its dynamic style with this gallery talk at the Guggenheim Museum.

June 26. The designing duo Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, founders of the label Eckhaus Latta, take the stage at the Museum of Arts and Design to describe the values and vision that go into their radical clothes, abstract groupings of textiles and fibers that merge into garments.