October 2, 2023

Balenciaga, Loewe, Hermès and Comme des Garçons Assess the Options

It’s time we expect more from our clothes. Assessing the options at Balenciaga, Loewe, Hermès and Comme des Garçons. Backstage after his autobiographical and quasi-retrospective Balenciaga […]
May 4, 2023

Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags

Listen to This Article Audio Recording by Audm Once upon a time, the legend goes, Theseus slew the Minotaur and sailed triumphantly home to Athens on […]
March 7, 2023

Let Us Now All Praise Wearability

As shown at Louis Vuitton, Loewe and Hermès. The idea has nothing to do with tech, and everything to do with good clothes. PARIS — Like […]
October 7, 2020

The Gender Reveal That Doesn’t

Whatever happened to secondary sex characteristics? You know, those shapes and appendages we develop after puberty as an anatomical signage, an aid to evolution. Kardashians aside, […]
July 17, 2020

A Fashion Show Epilogue. Or Was It an Elegy?

In 1964 Andy Warhol trained a camera on the Empire State Building for about six and a half hours, in a meditation on the nature of […]
September 28, 2019

Inside the Fashion Bubble

PARIS — When a parade of black-robed figures files solemnly by, each wielding a long, narrow black scepter, or spear (it was hard to tell), and […]
March 16, 2017

In Conversation: Jonathan Anderson & Anthea Hamilton

“This is the most unbelievably comfortable seat,” says the Irish fashion designer Jonathan Anderson as he nestles into a Modernist Danish chair at the Hepworth Wakefield […]