Visits: 44 The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reimagines the record of fashion, celebrating designers known but also those long, and wrongly, forgotten. Last October, when it was announced that Sarah Burton was leaving Alexander McQueen, the house she …
A Tokyo Designer Captures Memories in Gems
Visits: 47 Mio Harutaka’s pieces include bunnies, daisies and a piano keyboard ring in diamonds and onyx. Jeweled citrus slices, strawberries, snails and a Pegasus-winged horse are just a few of the whimsical pieces by the Japanese jewelry designer Mio …
Jewelry Designers Are Putting Their Sketches to Work
Visits: 37 Drawings once used primarily as production guides have been showing up in everything from social media to sales materials. Lorenz Bäumer is convinced that having a special area for sketching in his Paris boutique and hanging original drawings …
Artistry on Four Wheels
Visits: 54 Over the past 70 years, the skateboard has been on quite a ride. It first emerged in 1950s Los Angeles as a humble, homemade toy, but, before long, it became a bona fide cultural phenomenon — spawning skate …
The Whimsical Yet Edgy Jewelry Brand That Celebrities Love
Visits: 45 At Outhouse Jewelry, Kaabia and Sasha Grewal are reeling in big names with bird stud earrings, silver chokers and celestial motifs. The Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt walked into this year’s Met Gala in a Prabal Gurung dress woven …
The 12 Most Styles-ish Fashion Books Coming Out This Fall
Visits: 41 Pharrell, Thom Browne and Linda Evangelista are all contributing to a starry season for fashion publishing. It is fashion month, that season when a certain crowd jets between catwalks in New York, London, Milan and Paris. Once everyone …
Water Is Essential to Life. How Could It Ever Go Out of Style?
Visits: 39 The fashion world has long been fascinated with the natural world, but the love affair poses one major challenge: how to create the (convincing) illusion of wetness. In preparation for her head-turning appearance at the 2019 Met Gala, …
It’s Got Diamonds. But Is It Fun?
Visits: 37 Some fine jewelry makers find inspiration in the toys of their childhood. When the French jewelry designer Marie Lichtenberg was growing up in Paris in the 1990s, she loved playing with the Magic 8 Ball. The toy, when …
Rahul Mishra’s Ethos Is ‘Slow Fashion’
Visits: 41 It took Rahul Mishra six years to sell his first bridal lehenga, a three-piece skirt, blouse and scarf ensemble from the Indian subcontinent. That was in 2017. Now, there’s an almost five-month wait to buy one. In April, …
Capes, Couture and Prince William at the Royal Wedding in Jordan
Visits: 34 Jill Biden and a whole lot of royals from around the world made for a study in modest chic at the wedding of Hussein, the crown prince of Jordan, to Rajwa Al Saif. It was the greatest gathering …