Cathryn Horyn

Nathalie Rykiel (from left), Gladys Perint Palmer and Cathy Horyn at last week's symposium. All photos by Randy Brooke For those of you who weren’t able to make it to last week’s symposium, here are some photos from the very engaging discussion between Gladys Perint Palmer and special guests Nathalie Rykiel and Cathy Horyn. For a full report on the event, you can access an article through your online classes. Here’s a snippet from the article: As fashion students packed Morgan Auditorium on...Read Full Story

She’s got her own column in V magazine, and this time around Lady Gaga took shots at harsh and elitist fashion critics. The “Just Dance” diva spoke out against New York Times fashion writer Cathy Horyn and her tendency towards Extreme Critic Fundamentalism. Gaga wrote, “It’s so easy to say something is bad. It’s so easy to write, ‘One star, hated it, worst show of the season.’ It’s much more challenging to reckon with and analyze a work. It requires research, but maybe no one does their...Read Full Story

New York Daily News Lady Gaga calls out NYT's fashion censor Cathy HorynWashington Post (blog)(LUKE MACGREGOR - REUTERS) In Lady Gaga's latest mainstay for V Magazine, the questionably dressed diva takes veteran fashion critics to charge for resorting to negativity and doubt rsther than than newness and research. ...Lady Gaga trashes NYT columnist Cathy Horyn and fashion critique in her ...New York Daily NewsLady Gaga Disses Cathy Horyn, Obsolete Hierarchy Of Fashion CriticsHuffington...Read Full Story

Yesterday, after the big symposium with Nathalie Rykiel, special guest Cathy Horyn chatted with a group of students in a more intimate classroom setting about her career, the state of journalism and about the fashion industry (more on that later). A look from McQueen's Fall 2010 collection. Photo credit: Chris Moore/Karl Prouse Students had a chance to ask her questions and among the questions, Horyn talked about her latest article about Sarah Burton and Alexander McQueen — which was recently...Read Full Story

The New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn took RuPaul to lunch. Or, in other words, two of the planet's most fabulous people dined on a burger with no bun (for Ru) and salmon on toast (for Cathy). In the article, Ru had this to say of the most recent Drag Race winner, Raja: "First of all, if you can make it through the challenges, then you're the last man standing," Mr. Charles explained. "Also, she consistently had a Google Earth view of the world -- it wasn't just regional drag. She has...Read Full Story