October 6, 2016

On Time: A New Bronze Age for Wristwatches

On Time By ALEX WILLIAMS In an effort to stay au courant in the 21st century, watchmakers have been turning more and more to high-tech materials […]
October 6, 2016

Party Coverage: Scene City: Sarah Jessica Parker, Molly Shannon and Jerry Seinfeld at HBO’s Premiere of ‘Divorce’

Party Coverage: Scene City By ALEX WILLIAMS There was Sarah Jessica Parker (“Sex and the City”) huddling with Matthew Broderick (“Election”), as guests tucked into plates […]
October 6, 2016

Kate Middleton’s Tour of Canada: A Designer Scorecard

The masses have long been intrigued by royals’ fashion choices, and the royals, in turn, have used their sartorial presentation to establish and manage their reputations […]
October 5, 2016

Fashion Review: Renovating Fashion’s House

PARIS — The Paris shows began in a building site — Yves Saint Laurent’s new headquarters on the Rue de Bellechasse — and they ended in […]
October 5, 2016

A Head-Shot Truck Comes to New York

On a recent afternoon in Hell’s Kitchen, a pink and orange Chevrolet Stepvan, pulled up to the curb. It looked suspiciously like a food truck peddling […]
October 5, 2016

Cultural Studies: The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship

A recent ad for the Bravo TV show “Shahs of Sunset” finds two of its male stars lazing on lounge chairs at the beach. Amid a […]
October 4, 2016

Rites of Passage: No. 1 in America

Rites of Passage By LEE CHILD Objectively I was one of the luckiest humans ever born. In 1954, Britain was a stable postwar liberal democracy, at […]
October 4, 2016

List of Five: Kevin Hart’s Fashion Sense Is No Joke

Kevin Hart is one of the most successful comedians on earth, but his sense of style is no joke. With a new stand-up concert movie, “What […]
October 3, 2016

Remembering Sonia Rykiel, in Fashion’s Own Words

PARIS — A little more than a month ago, Sonia Rykiel, she of the pyramid of red hair and the famous “poor boy” sweaters, died from […]
October 2, 2016

Fashion Review: At Valentino, Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Metamorphosis

PARIS — When it was announced, back in July, that the design team of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, whose vision of Valentino-after-Valentino had propelled […]