Countdown to Fashion Week: Louise Nevelson, Eternal Muse

“Fashion could be an art, but it isn’t,” sculptor Louise Nevelson once said. But that stance has done nothing to dissuade fashion designers from looking to both the work and the unique personal aesthetic of the late artist for inspiration season after season. And Fall 2008 is shaping up to be no different. This Friday kicks off Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, and among the shows we’re looking forward to is that of Danish-born designer Camilla Staerk, who will present her Nevelson-inspired Staerk