Hits: 2 Gem-studded headpieces are traditional, so jewelers in Britain have been readying new styles as well as special creations to mark the event. LONDON — Some of the most valuable gems in the world, including the 530.2-carat Cullinan I …
NASA’s New Spacesuit: It’s a Look
Hits: 2 NASA and Axiom Space have unveiled the first major spacesuit redesign in four decades. Astronauts are getting hip. Space is getting a new look — sort of. On Wednesday, just a week after the end of the Paris …
No Dirt. No Distractions. Balenciaga Offers Just Clothes, and Contrition.
Hits: 2 In his first collection since the brand’s ad campaign controversy, the designer Demna starts to move on. PARIS — Can you design a redemption narrative for yourself without dramatically changing your identity? This was the question at the …
Diesel Was Brilliant. This Is Why We Need Designers.
Hits: 3 Glenn Martens makes the case with condoms, fun and mind-blowing technique. MILAN — Ever since Pharrell Williams, pop culture Renaissance man, was named creative director of Louis Vuitton men’s wear just over a week ago, nabbing one of …
Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie
Hits: 4 The CNN anchor should have known there is a fine line between showing some personality and things getting personal. Don Lemon, a co-host of “CNN This Morning,” is still off the air, four days after apologizing on Twitter …
What Does It Mean to Dress Rich?
Hits: 4 At New York Fashion Week, it was clear that the sartorial signifiers of wealth and status were changing. Ten o’clock in the morning in the middle of New York Fashion Week, and assorted ladies in cocktail finery and …
The Fraying of the American Wardrobe
Hits: 3 Coach and Elena Velez find common cause in style. It is not exactly a secret that the American dream is fraying. The cowboys are not necessarily the good guys; the founding fathers had their Achilles’ heel; the melting …
Erotic Watches Show More Than the Time
Hits: 2 Watchmaking traces its origins to 16th century Europe. And one category of watches present through much of that history — in a discreet, custom-order kind of way — still is being made by several luxury watch brands: timepieces …
After Jacinda Ardern, Politics Will Never Look the Same
Hits: 3 For once, a politician who wasn’t afraid of fashion. Last September, Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand who announced recently that she was stepping down after almost six years in power, did something government leaders rarely …
Fashion in the Bedroom
Hits: 5 And the kitchen, and the living room…. Pieter Mulier held his Alaïa show in his apartment in Antwerp, and invited everyone in. Alaïa, summer-fall 2023.Alaïa ANTWERP, Belgium — The designer Azzedine Alaïa, who died in 2017, was famous …