The fashion report of 1920 – International Herald Tribune

WHEN the going gets tough, the tough shop the hardware aisle. That, at least, is where Ruben and Isabel Toledo, the artist and designer, obtain the carpenter pants they like so much that Toledo once pinned the revival of the Anne Klein label on this basic item of blue-collar gear. "Hardware stores are my background," said Toledo, whose dad had a hardware store in Cuba, where the designer was born. These days Toledo relies on her father-in-law, who lives in West New York, New Jersey, to stock up for her and her husband on the kind of stuff you'll never see at Barneys New York.