VANESSA FRIEDMAN

July 9, 2020

Digital Dior. Remote Chanel. What’s Couture With No Runway?

Is this a front row anyone really wants to join? After three days seated at my dining room table, watching what was effectively Quibi for fashion […]
July 6, 2020

From ‘Game of Thrones’ to Digital Couture

In March, the couture collections as everyone knew them — the ultimate visual extravaganzas of fashion artistry, handmade for the very few — were canceled because […]
June 15, 2020

Matthew Williams Takes Over Givenchy

Change is coming for Givenchy. The French brand is going to emerge from coronavirus confinement with not just new social distancing rules, but a whole new […]
June 4, 2020

This Is Not the End of Fashion

Image This Is Not the End of Fashion History and human nature prove we will dress up again. What that looks like is the real question. […]
May 27, 2020

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Suit Is Like a Tuxedo for the Starship Enterprise

Michael Bay, the director of the 1998 cosmic disaster movie “Armageddon,” once gave an interview discussing the worst crisis in the making of the film. “Three […]
May 20, 2020

The Many Masks of Nancy Pelosi

Late last week, as she was leading the charge to push the Democrats’ $3 trillion pandemic relief package through the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi strode the […]
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 […]