VANESSA FRIEDMAN

October 8, 2020
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When a Fly Ruins Your Image

It was the accessory that stole the evening. Not the discreet strand of pearls and matching earrings worn by Senator Kamala Harris or the glowing Reagan […]
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October 8, 2020
Published by VANESSA FRIEDMAN at October 8, 2020
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Stella McCartney Had a Question: ‘Why on Earth Would You Be in Fashion?’

This season Stella McCartney eschewed her normal slot during Paris Fashion Week for a slightly later reveal — with a twist. She’s not coming out just […]
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October 7, 2020
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The Glorious Absurdity of Paris Fashion

It was the giant floating dachshund spaceship that did it. It drifted over an expansive Art Deco coliseum — site of the 2132 Lunar Games, an […]
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September 30, 2020
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Who’s a Fashion Victim Now?

In a sign of just how upside down and surreal the idea of fashion is at the moment, at the end of the Dior show on […]
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September 28, 2020
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In Milan, Fashion Tries to Go Back to Normal. What Does That Even Mean?

In 1975 Valentino Garavani, then the most feted couturier in Rome, moved his ready-to-wear show from Italy to Paris, the better to underscore his position as […]
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September 24, 2020
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Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada Make Civil Discourse Look Lovely

In the normal course of human events, it would have been the biggest show of the fashion season in Milan. Possibly the most anticipated show of […]
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September 22, 2020
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London Fashion Week Gives Good TV

“An artist’s duty, as far as I am concerned, is to reflect the times.” That was Nina Simone, in the vintage video shot that opened Gareth […]
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September 18, 2020
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The Burberry Show Was Not About a Cult

It is almost impossible these days to see billowing orange smoke in a densely wooded forest and not feel portents of doom. Especially when the smoke […]
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September 16, 2020
Published by VANESSA FRIEDMAN at September 16, 2020
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Sweatpants Are Not Forever

So to New York Fashion Week, the first event of the pandemic-doused world that may provide at least the inkling of an answer to the questions […]
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September 2, 2020
Published by VANESSA FRIEDMAN at September 2, 2020
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Politics Is Back in Fashion

Around this time four years ago, the American fashion industry did something it had never done before: It pledged its troth, publicly, and practically unanimously, to […]
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