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 …
Everyone Thought He Had Made the Famous Gown. It Was His Wife.
Visits: 42 This fall, the Metropolitan and three other museums give female designers their due. It is one of those ironies rarely discussed in the fashion industry — that a world focused largely on catering to (or exploiting, depending on …
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. …
The Mother of Strange Fashion
Visits: 24 PARIS — A woman wears a long thermometer on a hook hanging from her ear, her chin upturned and eyes gently closed, in a photograph taken by the artist Man Ray around 1920, not long after the influenza …