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Rachel Elspeth Gross
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Contributing Writer, Forbes
Florida
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Biography
I live for beautiful clothing and beautiful books; outside of people those are what I love most. I am a fashion historian and writer; my research is focused on the stories of the people behind the names, houses, and brands which have changed what people wear. I am a Forbes Contributor, where I cover haute couture, costume design, and fashion history as it relates to the world today. My work has been written about in Women’s Wear Daily, the New York Times, 1stDibs, Italian Harper’s Bazaar, The Seattle Times, The National News, and more. I am a formally trained apparel designer, and in my spare time I recreate 19th century womenswear from scratch, from corsets, bustles, and petticoats to ball gowns and costume jewelry. I volunteer with ballet/theater/opera companies, and support many fashion history related museums and private collections.
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By Rachel Elspeth Gross Verified|ForbesVerified“Intellectually I understand my work in one way and just intuitively, I understand it in a different way,” Linda Hall said to me. We met a couple of times over the last month or so to talk about her work. She currently has an exhibition at the Thomasville Center For The Arts, Surface Tension, Hall’s work on her own as well as her collaborations with photographer Becki Rutta. Hall is an artist, she works largely with textiles and in her hands anything at all can become a notion.
By Rachel Elspeth Gross Verified|ForbesVerifiedThe summer that Isabella Chan and Katie Xue were designing Amoy New York’s best-selling Jane dress, the ladies found themselves a theme song of sorts. They kept listening to December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night), by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
By Rachel Elspeth Gross Verified|ForbesVerified“We're visual storytellers, Kerry Weinrauch told me when we met to talk about her work on Watson, a new series for CBS/Paramount by Craig Sweeny, which is connected to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes universe. “When you're helping to tell a story, before an actor even opens their mouth and says a line, the audience is already deciding who that person is by what they're wearing, like what their social standing is, whether they're good or bad.
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Forbes