Last night's Isabel Toledo show opening was mind bending. I have known my old friends the Toledos (Ruben and Isabel) for the past 25 years and I always knew they were amazing and brilliant, but last night's Isabel Toledo retrospective show at FIT, "Fashion From the Inside Out", completely blew it out of the water. I walked into that cavernous below-streetlevel room on 27th Street at Seventh Avenue and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. This was extraordinary. Don't miss this.

Between the survey of Isabel's amazing work combined with the 500 feet of her husband Ruben's drawings to compliment it all... the package was breathtaking. I'm so grateful to Isabel and Ruben for their inspiration and curator Valerie Steele for creating such a beautiful, emotional, imaginative, innovative exhibit -- from Toledo's origami patterns, to those amazing silk dresses tied tightly around broomsticks and dyed (see above), to her genius matte jersey drapings to the magical seaming and details.

This is what fashion is. This is what design is. This is what art is. This is what craft is. This is what imagination and passion and dedication can achieve. Brava!