VANESSA FRIEDMAN

October 18, 2019

When Brand Trump Met Brand Vuitton

On Thursday two of the most powerful brands in politics and high fashion collided in Johnson County, Texas, a rural area about a half-hour’s drive south […]
October 11, 2019

Let’s Talk About Vladimir Putin’s Birthday Photo Op

[Open Thread is a weekly email from Vanessa Friedman. She’ll even answer your toughest fashion questions! To get it by email, sign up here.] Hello, and […]
October 3, 2019

Catwalk Crashers at Chanel. Animal Sex at Stella.

PARIS — The morning of Jacques Chirac’s funeral the sun came out. There was an autumn crispness to the air and Paris was, on Monday, as […]
September 28, 2019

Inside the Fashion Bubble

PARIS — When a parade of black-robed figures files solemnly by, each wielding a long, narrow black scepter, or spear (it was hard to tell), and […]
March 25, 2019

Unbuttoned: Is Apple Saying Goodbye to Fashion?

When Apple introduced the Apple Watch five years ago, the whole tech industry began to flirt with style. But interest in wearables has cooled.
March 5, 2018

Fashion Review: A Shades of Gray Show that Was Genuinely Worth Watching

Drawing the feminist form at Thom Browne, true romance at Valentino and facing the future at Stella McCartney.
February 8, 2018

On the Runway: The North Korean Cheer Squad is Playing a Different Olympic Game

Advertisement Winter Olympics fashion has, largely, been a tale of two events: the opening and closing ceremonies, where national costume comes out to play; and figure […]
February 8, 2018

Unbuttoned: Fashion Week in the Wake of #MeToo: An Insider’s Guide

Advertisement Talk about fighting for eyeballs. Squeezed in between the Super Bowl and the Oscars, competing with the Olympics for attention, the first fashion month of […]
January 31, 2018

On the Runway: State of the Union Statements in Black and White

Advertisement It took the State of the Union to get her in a state of quasi-support. On Tuesday night Melania Trump finally appeared in public alongside […]
January 23, 2018

Fashion Review: Designs on Female Empowerment at Chanel and Dior

Advertisement PARIS — Not quite two weeks after Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Millet and more than 100 other women set off a firestorm in France with an […]