Two critics weigh in on the London Fashion Week that was, from Burberry to Simone Rocha and with a guest appearance by the Redgrave women. Fashion month may have gone all-digital, but the memory of live shows lingers. With the London collections winding down, our fashion critics traded thoughts on a shifting landscape. Vanessa Friedman …
Tamara Ralph and Michael Russo, who make fantasy dresses for the superrich, had a personal fairy tale narrative. Now, they are writing a new chapter. Normally in January, Tamara Ralph presents a runway extravaganza as part of Paris couture week. This year, however, Ms. Ralph, the creative director of Ralph & Russo, alongside her longtime …
Once you master the technique, every outfit becomes more interesting. Tying a wrap becomes an everyday celebration of Blackness. Seven years ago, at my grandfather’s funeral in Kumasi, Ghana, my extended family and I all wore matching outfits, as is the custom. In our tradition, fabric patterns have distinct meanings, and ours was printed with …
In an echoing soundstage off an uneven access road on the east side of Los Angeles in early February, men and women in personal protective equipment and lots of Moschino outfits were darting around monitors and director’s chairs. On a stage created to resemble an overgrown jungle, with artificial monstera leaves and shadowy cutouts of …
The designer on the challenges of fully digital fashion weeks, as well as her new collaboration with H&M. The Irish fashion designer Simone Rocha has been busy celebrating 10 years in business. This week she presented her fall 2023 collection as part of London Fashion Week. And on March 12, a long-awaited collaboration with H&M …
An attempt to evict the fashion icon shines a spotlight on some of the very blurry lines in fashion. André Leon Talley, the flamboyant and pioneering Black fashion editor who rocked the industry last May with his memoir, “The Chiffon Trenches,” in which he took potshots at such sacred cows of style as Anna Wintour …
The topcoats made by Norwegian Wool are as warm as your bulkiest puffer, and they’ve become the favorite of financiers, news anchors and the movie crowd. Seven years ago, when Michael Berkowitz, 34, was a physical commodities trader in New York, he found that the best time to talk to his busy boss was on …
Not to mention clothes to wear. As seen on Michael B. Jordan in Coach, Dita Von Teese in Moschino, and a semi-dance party at Prada. Jennifer Lopez crooning Blondie’s “Call Me” while writhing in a phone booth in a trench and logo tee. Michael B. Jordan strutting Shaft-like in the streets of New York in …
His laid-back style and namesake jeans made him a touchstone of 1960s fashion, drawing celebrities and tourists alike to his stores. Fred Segal, whose clothing boutiques became an emblem of Los Angeles cool by selling form-fitting jeans and chambray shirts to the likes of Bob Dylan, Farah Fawcett and the Beatles, died on Thursday in …
Vanessa Friedman, fashion director of The New York Times, takes reader questions. My daughter is getting married this spring. It will be a small daytime wedding in a park. I bought a knee-length wrap dress and neutral-colored low heels to wear, and though I have not bought or worn stockings in decades, I feel as …
He was an architect of the over-the-top look known as “ghetto fabulous.” Later, unable to support his own lavish lifestyle, he fell from grace. Derek Khan, a celebrated fashion stylist to hip-hop and R&B stars like Salt-N-Pepa, Pink and Lauryn Hill who later fell far from those glittering heights, died on Feb. 15 at a …
OK, it was mostly virtual. But watching stars dress up again was actually a whole lot of fun. Forget the Zoom shirt; welcome to the Zoom evening gown. Also the Zoom tux. If the Golden Globes red carpet wasn’t exactly the red carpet we were used to, nor was it the dressed-down stars-in-their-jammies-pretending-to-be-just-like-us reveal that …