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September 8, 2016

Fashion Diary: Waiting for Kanye

If there were ever an audience primed for the cuckoo rigors of performance art, it is followers of fashion. Who understands duration better than those for […]
September 8, 2016

Odell Beckham Jr. Responds to the Lena Dunham Dust-Up: ‘I Have to Learn More About the Situation’

When Odell Beckham Jr., the balletic wide receiver with the action-hero charisma, was drafted by the New York Giants two years ago, he embarked on a […]
September 7, 2016

New York Fashion Week: An Oral History: The Front Row

Jockeying for Position SIMON DOONAN In the 1980s, Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta had the nouvelle society ladies. They were the celebrities within that […]
September 7, 2016

New York Fashion Week: An Oral History: The First Shows

As New York Fashion Week approaches its 75th year (the first official shows, massed under the heading of Press Week, were held in 1943), with 151 […]
September 7, 2016

Everything You Need to Know About This Crazy, Mixed-Up, (Maybe) Very Good Season

Gather ye memories while ye may: Fashion week as it has been for the last 50-plus years may, finally, be over. This is not crying wolf […]
September 7, 2016

On Time: How to Buy a Vintage Watch (and Not Get Fleeced)

On Time By ALEX WILLIAMS These days, vintage watches are hot enough that some aficionados treat their collections like 401(k) accounts: a great way to build […]
September 6, 2016

On the Runway: Neon Makes a Point at the U.S. Open

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY Blame it on its proximity to New York Fashion Week, which officially starts on Thursday (unofficially, it starts on Wednesday), but […]
September 6, 2016

The Hunt for Asia Watch Sales

Even as Swiss watch exports continue to decline, watchmakers are sharply focused on trying to find just the right combination of marketing and retail strategies in […]
September 5, 2016

Luxury in Myanmar: ‘A Long-Term Investment’

YANGON, Myanmar — “Every man has a crazy hobby,” said U Thiri Thein Than, an automotive engineer from Yangon who also has a home in Tokyo. […]
September 5, 2016

Wild About Watches

SINGAPORE — “Welcome. Please sit in the Spitfire chair.” Dr. Bernard Cheong, a physician and probably one of the world’s quirkiest watch collectors, gestured at a […]