VANESSA FRIEDMAN

December 10, 2021

What’s the Secret to Monochrome Dressing?

A reader asks for guidance on picking a color and sticking with it. With the dreariness of winter approaching, I’m craving outfits of a single, bright […]
November 30, 2021

Jill Biden’s White House Christmas Display Looks Very … Normal

You won’t find any blood-red trees this year. Gone are the blood-red trees. Gone are the icy, sparkling boughs and the imagery of a woman isolated […]
November 30, 2021

The Guccis Are Really Not Happy About ‘House of Gucci’

When artistic license collides with reality, which one wins? The fractious Gucci family, whose internecine power struggles famously helped it lose the company Guccio Gucci founded […]
November 28, 2021

Virgil Abloh, Barrier-Breaking Designer, Is Dead at 41

His expansive approach to design inspired comparisons to artists including Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. For him, clothes were totems of identity. Virgil Abloh, the barrier-breaking […]
November 17, 2021

What Was Fashion Doing at COP26?

Trading buzzwords, talking circularity and grappling with the role of clothes in the climate crisis. The first time fashion got anywhere near an official United Nations […]
November 12, 2021

How Can I Channel My Inner 1930s Movie Star?

A reader asks for guidance on finding glamorous loungewear. Around Christmas and New Year’s, my husband and I enjoy watching films from the 1930s and ’40s. […]
November 3, 2021

Gucci Makes a Hollywood Entrance

LOS ANGELES — On election night in America, in the shadow of Grauman’s Chinese Theater and amid the panting anticipation for Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” […]
November 3, 2021

Eric Adams's Style: ‘Everything About You Must Say Power’

New York City’s new mayor, Eric Adams, pays a lot of attention to what he wears. You should, too. Six years ago, Eric Adams, then Brooklyn […]
October 26, 2021

Frédéric Arnault: The Newest Power Player in Luxury’s First Family

PARIS — Frédéric Arnault, the 26-year-old chief executive of TAG Heuer, may be the youngest C.E.O. of a luxury watch brand in the world. He may […]
October 21, 2021

Kyrsten Sinema’s Style Keeps Us Guessing

Sometimes a dress is just a dress. Sometimes it’s a strategy. Senator Kyrsten Sinema may have been in Europe recently on a fund-raising trip and out […]