VANESSA FRIEDMAN

February 24, 2022

Yeezy Gap/Balenciaga is Here. Is It Worth It?

What exactly are we buying, when we buy fashion? A disruptive collaboration provides one answer. There are others. There was disruption, from the start. A major […]
February 22, 2022

London Fashion Comes Back to Life

There was a lot to see at London Fashion Week. It began amid the raging winds of Storm Eunice, the extratropical cyclone that hit parts of […]
February 18, 2022

Can I Still Wear Low-Rise Jeans?

A reader wants to know whether she has matured past a trend that is back in style. I am trying to decide at what age low-rise […]
February 17, 2022

It’s Telfar’s World. We’re Just Living in It.

The designer brings the New York shows to a close with a video-and-fashion happening. For almost a decade, the unofficial honor of closing New York Fashion […]
February 4, 2022

Opening Ceremony Fashion: Best and Worst

Opening Ceremony Fashion: Best and Worst Vanessa FriedmanWatching the Olympics from New York James Hill for The New York Times The parade of nations in the […]
January 23, 2022

André Leon Talley, Fashion's Last Great Editor

There is a scene early in “The September Issue,” the 2009 documentary about the making of the year’s door-stopper Vogue magazine, that features a meeting between […]
January 20, 2022

What to Wear in the Metaverse

Late in October, when Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the rebranding of Facebook as Meta, he did so in an immersive video designed to reveal his vision of […]
January 7, 2022

New York Could Make History With a Fashion Sustainability Act

The state would be the first to pass legislation setting broad sustainability regulations for the industry. Last September, as New York Fashion Week was taking place […]
January 7, 2022

New York Could Make History With a Fashion Sustainability Act

The state would be the first to pass legislation setting broad sustainability regulations for the industry. Last September, as New York Fashion Week was taking place […]
December 21, 2021

The Year of Balenciaga

Demna Gvasalia and I meet in the metaverse, in a glassed-in conference room in an unnamed city. Though the buildings suggest Singapore by way of the […]