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TEN YEARS OF FASHION: A Conversation Between CATHY HORYN and LINDSAY PEOPLES

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FOR OVER 30 YEARS, Cathy Horyn has been a prominent voice in fashion, offering backstage insights, runway critiques, and thoughtful analysis of style's ever-changing meaning. To mark a decade of Horyn's invaluable contributions at the Cut, she recently sat down with editor-in-chief Lindsay Peoples for a conversation reflecting on what's been learned and what's been worth celebrating along the way.

LINDSAY PEOPLES: Let's start with your 2016 review of Kanye West's Yeezy show at Madison Square Garden, which you were assigned to cover for your first Fashion Week at the Cut. You said that the show's problems reflected "the general state of the fashion world-in particular, the sense that an experience often begins with delight and almost always ends with a feeling of nothingness." Looking back on that show, which was a cultural moment, and Kanye, who has undeniably been a force in fashion-albeit a hugely controversial one: What did you think of him then, and how do you feel about him now? Has your perspective shifted after witnessing so many Yeezy shows? [Editor's note: In February, after this conversation took place, West posted his latest series of misogynistic and antisemitic statements.]