March 12, 2024

Fanatics and Nike Blamed by Fans for MLB Uniform Issues

A redesign of M.L.B.’s uniforms has put Fanatics and Nike at the center of a debate about performance versus quality in sportswear. At the end of […]
August 8, 2023

From the World Cup to Wimbledon, Female Athletes Are Fighting For Their Uniforms

Across sports, female athletes are fighting a battle over what they put on their bodies and how much of those bodies they display. We are in […]
June 14, 2023

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Is Transforming A.I., One Leather Jacket at a Time

Jensen Huang, the C.E.O. of Nvidia, is transforming a black leather jacket into a symbol of the A.I. paradigm shift. There’s a new tech titan in […]
February 8, 2023

Volodymyr Zelensky Meets King Charles III in a Sweatshirt

In October 2020, just over a year after he was elected president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife, Olena Zelenska, took an official trip to […]
March 27, 2022

At 83, a Japanese Master Still Makes Martial Arts Gear by Hand

Kiichiro Ito spends his days creating uniforms for kendo, an ancient form of fencing. TOKYO — When my 6-year-old son recently joined a local kendo club, […]
March 21, 2022

The Man in the Olive Green Tee

How Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky transformed the meaning of a piece of cotton. In the beginning, it was just a T-shirt: basic, olive green; the kind […]
April 8, 2020

Cuomo, Fauci, Birx: The New Influencers

There is currently a petition, on change.org, to nominate Dr. Anthony Fauci, the 79-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the […]
November 21, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard’s White Pantsuit Isn’t Winning

What has happened to the white pantsuit? Watching the Democratic debate held in Atlanta on Wednesday night, it was one of the questions that stuck with […]
October 29, 2016

Who Owns Cheerleader Uniform Designs? It’s up to the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will spend part of Halloween hearing arguments about fashion, in a case that aims to determine whether anyone can own the stripes on […]
April 21, 2016

Unbuttoned: Bankers in the Age of Bernie: Do They Need Camouflage?

April 21, 2016 Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN He came, he lost, but his rhetoric continues. I am speaking, of course, of Senator Bernie Sanders, who may […]