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“It’s an interesting moment,” Batsheva Hay said during an appointment at her midtown studio. “I’ve gone completely black.” It’s true that almost every piece in her resort collection is black, white, or gray (and sometimes also silver,…

This season Batsheva Hay traded the runway for a presentation. Hay named this collection “The Self As A Dress,” and walking into the Bortolami gallery in Tribeca, it was easy to expect a solemn performance piece inside a white box. The mood…

Throughout the film, Fineman shows up to various dates at the East Village bistro Pardon My French in a series of Hay’s signatures: florals, exaggerated collars, puffed sleeves, and plenty of ruffles. These scenes are accented by a nervous…

Batsheva Hay has the seven year itch. “I’ve been really opening myself up to other ways of dressing, and seeing how people react to the clothing,” she said at her showroom in between market appointments. “I think I’m going through a little…

“It’s a little early, but once you’re up there, you get that New York deli energy,” film icon Veronica Webb tells me from a basement kitchen on 38th and 7th avenue. It’s 8 am, we’re backstage at Batsheva, and her blue glitter cat eyes and…

Batsheva Hay was ready for some change. “I’ve been growing, and I’ve just really been spitting out lots of styles,” she explained on a recent morning over Zoom. “This time, I really wanted to tone it down, and we did that on the shoot. It…

A single well-worn Laura Ashley dress that the designer wore until it was in shreds–combined with years of collecting the brand’s pieces–is what inspired the Batsheva Hay to launch her own namesake collection of floral puff-sleeve pieces…

Batsheva Hay has been designing her personal furniture for over four years now. Step inside her Upper West Side apartment, and you’ll see a bright orange couch with a floral back cushion and a healthy assortment of leopard pillows, all made…

“It’s big, broad, and for everything she might want to do,” says Batsheva Hay of her fall 2022 collection. Years ago, she once joked that there were only four things to do with her style of ruffled prairie dress. Now she has pushed her…

The allure of Batsheva has always been designer Batsheva Hay herself. She started her brand making clothing she’d like to wear, then friends in New York propelled her personal designs into a business. In the four years since, Hay’s…