Batsheva Hay - Creating Avant-Garde Fashion On the Upper West Side

Mosha Lundström Halbert meets Batsheva Hay at her New York studio and discovers the origins of her trademark “Batsheva dress.” The designer revisits the places where her fashion story began – namely her grandmother and mother’s Laura Ashley-laden closets – as well as Queens, New York where she devoured Vogue as a “sad preteen” at her local branch of Barnes & Noble.

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Fashion Conversations with Bronwyn Cosgrave is a bi-weekly interview series featuring lively discussions with artistic luminaries working at the forefront of fashion. Bronwyn’s guests include leading designers, best-selling authors, filmmakers, museum curators and Hollywood stylists. Her conversations go deep. Guests reveal the secrets to their artistry, thoughts on social issues impacting fashion and the personal challenges they’ve overcome realizing their dreams. Bronwyn is the author of best-selling fashion history books. She produces feature-length fashion documentaries and writes journalism about design and fashion. Her humanistic, research-driven interview style is shaped by her extensive work as a fashion historian, a television commentator and broadcaster for international radio networks such as the BBC, CBC and NPR. Fashion Conversations with Bronwyn Cosgrave is a Wondercast Production.