Amy Fine Collins

RENOWNED FASHION JOURNALIST AMY FINE COLLINS EMBODIES IMPECCABLY POLISHED UPTOWN STYLE WITH AN ECCENTRIC TWIST. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JACK PIERSON OLIVIER ZAHM — Amy, you’re a fashion icon, a muse, a fashion writer. Fashion is your world. AMY FINE COLLINS — Well, I did begin with art. That was my background, inasmuch as I was trained to be an art historian, and I actually taught art history at Columbia University for two years, before I left for glossy-magazine journalism. Anyway, I was always interested in fashion, and there was no graduate school for anything like that in the US then — nothing in decorative arts and nothing in fashion. OLIVIER ZAHM — And you left for magazines in the beginning of the ’90s? AMY FINE COLLINS — It happened around ’89. I wrote a review of Geoffrey Beene’s retrospective at the National Academy of Design for an art magazine. It was…