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Anna Sui to Receive Honorary Degree From New School

Anna Sui will receive an honorary degree from The New School at the university’s 81st commencement exercises on May 19.
Also receiving honorary degrees are Ai-jen Poo, an activist on behalf of domestic workers and the elderly, and Barbara Hillary, an explorer and cancer survivor, who at the age of 75, was the first African-American woman to reach the North Pole.
The graduation, which will be presided over by President David E. Van Zandt, takes place at the Arthur Ashe Stadium at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens. The New School’s graduation ceremony is the first-ever non-tennis event to be held at the Arthur Ashe Stadium. The ceremony will be broadcast live on Livestream.
Sui, who attended but never graduated from The New School’s Parsons School of Design, is known for her blend of vintage, glamour and cutting-edge style. The designer has opened more than 50 boutiques in eight countries, launched cosmetics, fragrances, shoe and accessory lines, and designed products for Samsung, Google and Starbucks. In 2009, Sui won the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
“It’s kind of a funny story,” said Sui, who added she is very excited to be

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ANTWERP, Belgium — Fashion is having a Martin Margiela moment, and now museums are following suit.
As Paris gears up for a Margiela retrospective at Palais Galliera in 2018, an exhibition in Antwerp focuses on the Belgian designer’s work as artistic director of women’s ready-to-wear at Hermès between 1997 and 2003. “Margiela: The Hermès Years,” opens at MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp Friday.
The show was designed in collaboration with the retired designer, who stayed true to his reputation as fashion’s invisible man by skipping the vernissage on Thursday night. Margiela also worked on the accompanying catalog, which he dedicated to Jean-Louis Dumas, the late Hermès chief executive officer who hired him, and Jenny Meirens, cofounder of Maison Martin Margiela.
Kaat Debo, director and curator in chief of MoMu, believes the time is right to revisit Margiela’s work at Hermès, both because of his continued influence on designers including Demna Gvasalia, Kanye West and Phoebe Philo, and because his respectful attitude to women resonates at a time of worldwide protests for women’s rights.
“You can’t overestimate his influence. What he proposed at the end of the Eighties, beginning of the Nineties as avant-garde fashion has become mainstream,” Debo told WWD.
“I also noticed that this particular body of work

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