Ruthie Davis :: Body & Sole 3 featuring Ruthie Davis
Ruthie Davis has been obsessed with shoes for as long as she can remember. Her mother likes to tell the story of when she took Ruthie to get her first pair of shoes, a pair of red patent leather mary-janes. When the sales lady tried to take them off her feet to put them back into the box she started wailing; her first public tantrum.
"There was no way those babies were coming off my feet. I wore them out of the store. Growing up, my father would say that I either needed to marry rich or get into the shoe business to support my shoe habit. I chose the latter." more...
Jason Wu Designer Profile featuring Ruthie Davis
Jason Wu is certainly nostalgic for the past. Citing one his influences as Horst's photography, Wu's designs resuscitate Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich mystique and invoke Charles James's hourglass. Yet while aiming to achieve the elegance from mid century, Jason Wu also debunks the constricting nature of old-fashioned cuts, and aims to impose the elegance of eras past on today's woman. Although layers of luxury fabrics and emphasis on gowns often places Wu in the evening wear category, his risky stylistic runway choices more...