November 2, 2017

Watch Brands Are Thinking Twice About Going to the Fair

LONDON — The luxury watch show Salon QP is returning to the Saatchi Gallery here this week for a ninth edition — during an increasingly challenging […]
November 2, 2017

Watches: The Strategy at Girard-Perregaux is on Time

According to Antonio Calce, the chief executive of Kering’s fine watch group, which includes Girard-Perregaux, growing up in Switzerland presents a simple question to children thinking […]
November 1, 2017

Russian Authorities Investigate 14-Year-Old Model’s Death

Advertisement Last week, a 14-year-old model from Perm, Russia, died while on a three-month assignment in China, setting off questions and a burst of unverified information […]
November 1, 2017

The Last of Joan Rivers

Say what you want about Joan Rivers, but she always had impeccable timing. In a kind of cosmic joke she would have been the first to […]
November 1, 2017

On the Runway: Trump’s Official Portrait Resembles a Smiley Emoji

Advertisement It was an irony lost perhaps only on the White House that, almost nine months after he entered office, President Trump’s official photographic portrait was […]
November 1, 2017

Style Q & A: The Roots’ Black Thought on Philadelphia Style. And His Beard.

Tariq Trotter, 44, a founder of the music collective the Roots (and the house band for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”), could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. […]
October 31, 2017

Even in Super-Wealthy Enclaves, Paul Manafort’s Spending Raises Some Eyebrows

WASHINGTON — Look closely enough, and the document charging Paul Manafort with money laundering, tax evasion and foreign lobbying reads less like a 12-count federal indictment […]
October 31, 2017

Coldplay and Clocks, Benjamin Franklin, and Daylight Savings Time Connection

Do you think Howard Miller knew of the connection between Benjamin Franklin, William Willett, World War I (when Daylight Saving Time was first adopted by Germany […]
October 31, 2017

Unbuttoned: Paul Manafort’s Shopping Sprees Hit Home

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN Of all the damning details in the Justice Department indictment accusing Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager, and Rick Gates, a […]
October 31, 2017

Burberry Says Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey to Leave

In yet another major shake-up of the fashion world, Christopher Bailey, the chief creative officer and president of Burberry and the man responsible for transforming it […]