Visits: 31 Projecting himself into the latest styles in Paris, our critic poses the perennial question: “Could I pull that off?” Am I that guy? The question is both nagging and inescapable if you follow the men’s wear circuit, as …
Mad for It: What Happened When Chanel Came to Manchester
Visits: 37 The French fashion house took its Métiers d’Art show to the north of England and the home of soccer, Coronation Street and Northern soul. Manchester is a city of glory and grit. Set among the damp northwest hills …
How PETA Infiltrated Major Fashion Shows This Season
Visits: 49 An inside look at how and why the animal rights activists returned to disrupting the runways. A young woman crouched in the tall grass, waiting for her moment to strike. It wasn’t until seven models stalked past her …
What Does It Take to Be a Vogue Model?
Visits: 43 The fashion industry’s bible embarked on a public model search. There were 67,000 applications. What exactly were they looking for? It is a curious moment in modeling. There is a gale-force wind of nostalgia for the super-famous supermodels …
Fashion’s Reluctant It Boy
Visits: 24 About two months ago, Eli Russell Linnetz moved into a house built in the mid-1980s by the actor Dennis Hopper. Mr. Linnetz had spent the last few years as a kind of Venice Beach Goldilocks, moving until he …
The Balenciaga Comeback Is Happening
Visits: 41 At the Cannes Film Festival, the Met Gala and with a new collection. Is the world ready? Demna, the mononymic designer of Balenciaga, that former harbinger of all things haute and cool that experienced a highly public fall …
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 …
The Mean Life of a ‘Midsize’ Model
Visits: 21 In Paris last month, at the Chanel couture show, there was something about one model that set her apart from the others on the runway. Strikingly beautiful, Jill Kortleve has almond-shaped eyes, dark bushy eyebrows and chiseled cheekbones. …
What to Wear Next Year
Visits: 38 The spring 2021 fashion season, which began with the promise of normalcy in the form of Jason Wu’s show on a roof in front of a live audience back in September, finally came to an end in mid-December. …
What Happened at New York’s First Pandemic Fashion Show?
Visits: 47 Jason Wu said he was feeling Zen, swiveling in an office chair in his studio near Penn Station. It was Saturday afternoon, the day before his runway show, and he was surrounded by his design team and stylists, …