FERN’S MET-ROPOLIS: Nearing the 10-year mark for her “Fashion Icon” series at the 92Y, Fern Mallis has found other reasons to celebrate, too.
In honor of the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” Mallis will be sharing content for “Fashion Icons: From the Archives” from three style authorities. Each of the trio has their own personal histories with the Met and some of those moments will be shared in the upcoming episodes. The first digital content to be released will spotlight Iris Apfel, who is nearing her 100th birthday. Apfel once had 86 of her outfits on display in the Costume Institute. Her two-hour interview is broken into four episodes that will be released starting Monday.
Mallis’ 10-year milestone will be on Sept. 15 and she has plans to bring back in-person talks to the 92Y this fall. After that first chat with Norma Kamali nearly a decade ago, Mallis has interviewed 50 Fashion Icons including Tom Ford, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Billy Porter, André Leon Talley, Oscar de la Renta, Betsey Johnson and others.
