VANESSA FRIEDMAN

May 14, 2020

Jeff Bezos and Anna Wintour Partner Up

Finally, Jeff Bezos is really in fashion. On Thursday, Amazon rode to the rescue of the beleaguered American industry — or at least one particularly challenged […]
May 14, 2020

André Leon Talley’s Tales from the Dark Side

There is a scene in “The September Issue,” the 2009 movie by R. J. Cutler about the making of the biggest Vogue of the year, that […]
May 13, 2020

Don’t Get Dressed Without Watching This Show

We are all dressing for TV now — or at least for the small screen. As we sit in our homes, Zooming and FaceTiming, how we […]
May 12, 2020

Designers Revolt Against the Shopping Cycle

Is Black Friday as we know it over, at least when it comes to shopping for clothes? The coronavirus pandemic may have stopped the motor of […]
April 29, 2020

Their Met Gala, Their Way. You’re Invited.

This is the time of year when, in the normal course of 21st-century events, an army of stylists, makeup artists, florists, designers and celebrities would be […]
April 22, 2020

Should Masks Be a Fashion Statement?

Almost as soon as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada and Brooks Brothers announced earlier this month that they would be repurposing parts of their factories to make […]
April 11, 2020

Bill Cunningham’s Easter Parade

ImageManhattan’s Easter parade in 1997.Credit…Bill Cunningham/The New York Times What would Bill Cunningham, the man who transformed street style photography (before it was even known by […]
April 8, 2020

Cuomo, Fauci, Birx: The New Influencers

There is currently a petition, on change.org, to nominate Dr. Anthony Fauci, the 79-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the […]
April 2, 2020

Will We Lose a Generation of Designers?

You might not know Batsheva Hay, Christopher John Rogers and Carly Cushnie. They are emerging independent designers based in New York with relatively small namesake companies. […]
March 24, 2020

When Fashion TV Becomes an Anthropological Treasure

There is no live fashion to look at now. No shows; no red carpets; not really any street style. The cruise collections that normally take place […]