Visits: 19 “The New Look,” an Apple TV+ series, takes great liberties with the intertwined life stories of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel. The truth is just as interesting. In the twenty-six years she lived after World War II, Coco …
In Paris, Stars Going Shopping
Visits: 24 What to wear on the red carpet? Schiaparelli, Dior and Chanel have some ideas. Armani, too. The fact that the big Oscar nominations reveal fell right in the middle of the Paris couture shows was a coincidence, but …
Fashion and Sport: An Ideal Match?
Visits: 32 As Paris prepares to host the 2024 Olympics, new exhibitions explore the relationship between two worlds obsessed with physical perfection. With Paris gearing up to host the 2024 Olympics — and with 150 million euros worth of sponsorship …
The Gray Suit Takes Center Stage
Visits: 28 Thom Browne makes his couture debut, while Schiaparelli, Dior and Iris Van Herpen spin their own dreamy tales. In 1955 the idea of the gray flannel suit as the symbol of the soul-deadened corporate drone entered the American …
Dior’s Gateway to India
Visits: 36 The stakes are getting higher in fashiontainment. What a flex. Ah, the symbolism. On Thursday evening, about 850 local and international celebrities, artists, editors and influencers (and editor-influencers, since they are increasingly becoming one and the same) gathered …
Can Fashion Still Shock?
Visits: 24 From trompe l’oeil to the metaverse, Schiaparelli, Dior and Iris van Herpen offer some answers. PARIS — What’s shocking now? There are many possible answers to that question, though few of them, probably, have to do with fashion. …
Digital Dior. Remote Chanel. What’s Couture With No Runway?
Visits: 41 Is this a front row anyone really wants to join? After three days seated at my dining room table, watching what was effectively Quibi for fashion — which is to say, the first streamed digital couture “shows,” forced …