VANESSA FRIEDMAN

January 19, 2018

Open Thread: Open Thread: This Week in Style News

Advertisement Each week, the Open Thread newsletter will offer a look from across The New York Times at the forces that shape the dress codes we […]
January 13, 2018

Condé Nast Crafts Rules to Protect Models From Harassment

Advertisement Condé Nast, publisher of some of the glossiest magazines in the world, is changing the way it does business. Prompted by the sexual harassment outcry […]
January 12, 2018

On the Runway: Is the Fashion Wearables Love Affair Over?

Advertisement Ssssh. Listen. Do you hear that? That resounding silence emanating from the fashion world about the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a.k.a. one of […]
January 8, 2018

E! Network Fumbles Over #WhyWeWearBlack

Advertisement E! Entertainment built an entire two-hour pre-awards franchise on revealing to the world what designer gowns and tuxes various actors and actresses were modeling on […]
January 5, 2018

The Red Carpet Is Its Own Economy

Advertisement “For years, we’ve sold these awards shows as women, with our gowns and colors and our beautiful faces and our glamour,” the actress Eva Longoria […]
December 23, 2017

Unbuttoned: The Daniel Day-Lewis Version of Fantasy Fashion Diva

Advertisement Much has been made in recent weeks of “Phantom Thread,” the Paul Thomas Anderson movie about a 1950s couturier that opens, like a big present […]
December 22, 2017

On the Runway: Meghan Markle’s Sheer Top Was a Sneaky Statement for a Royal Portrait

Advertisement Meghan Markle, the soon-to-be wife of the man who is soon to be sixth in line to the British throne, set off something of a […]
November 30, 2017

On the Runway: In India, Ivanka Trump Tried on Some Fashion Diplomacy. Was it a Good Look?

Advertisement Where is the line between culturally appropriate dress and cultural appropriation? It was hard to look at Ivanka Trump’s wardrobe during her India trip this […]
November 27, 2017

Next on Meghan Markle’s To Do List: Choose Her Royal Style

Royal watchers, fairy tale lovers and proponents of the “special relationship” between Britain and the United States, let out your collective breath: Prince Harry, fifth in […]
November 27, 2017

Pinups in the Post-Weinstein World

This is a big week for women in their underwear. On Tuesday, the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, a.k.a. “the world’s biggest fashion event,” airs on TV […]