Purple Magazine
— The New York issue #39 S/S 2023
Amy Fine Collins
RENOWNED FASHION JOURNALIST
AMY FINE COLLINS EMBODIES
IMPECCABLY POLISHED UPTOWN
STYLE WITH AN ECCENTRIC
TWIST.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JACK PIERSON
OLIVIER ZAHM — Amy, you’re a fashion icon, a muse, a fashion writer. Fashion is your world.
AMY FINE COLLINS — Well, I did begin with art. That was my background, inasmuch as I was trained to be an art historian, and I actually taught art history at Columbia University for two years, before I left for glossy-magazine journalism. Anyway, I was always interested in fashion, and there was no graduate school for anything like that in the US then — nothing in decorative arts and nothing in fashion.
OLIVIER ZAHM — And you left for magazines in the beginning of the ’90s?
AMY FINE COLLINS — It happened around ’89. I wrote a review of Geoffrey Beene’s retrospective at the National Academy of Design for an art magazine. It was…
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BLACK AND WHITE SLEEVELESS COTTON AND LACE DRESS WITH ASYMMETRICAL LINING COMME DES GARÇONS
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SILK TWILL PLEATED SKIRT, SHIRT, AND SPORTS COAT IN ALLOVER SCENIC PRINT, JACQUARD CHESTERFIELD COAT IN SCENIC SCUBA PRINT, AND LIGHT GREEN HEELED WINGTIP “THOM JOHN” SHOES THOM BROWNE, WITH JEWELRY DAVID YURMAN
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MULTICOLOR TWEED DRESS WITH RAFFIA EMBROIDERY AND BLACK FLORAL LACE TIGHTS LOUIS VUITTON, WITH JEWELRY DAVID YURMAN
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BLACK DRESS IN LINEN, LACE, AND FISHNET DIOR, WITH CRYSTAL-EMBELLISHED VELVET MULES MANOLO BLAHNIK, AND JEWELRY DAVID YURMAN