VANESSA FRIEDMAN

October 6, 2017

Open Thread: Open Thread: This Week in Style News

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 share, […]
October 1, 2017

Fashion Review: The Verdict on Clare Waight Keller’s Givenchy

PARIS — It takes a certain amount of gumption to hold your first show for a historic French brand in the echoing, imposing halls of the […]
September 26, 2017

Reinventing Givenchy

PARIS — One day in July, not long after Clare Waight Keller had begun work as the first female artistic director of Givenchy — succeeding its […]
September 20, 2017

At Italian Vogue, a New Beginning

In January, not long after returning from his winter holiday, Emanuele Farneti, the 42-year-old editor of Italian GQ, was chatting with a media friend when the […]
September 13, 2017

Fashion Review: Ralph Lauren Wants to Take You for a Spin

On Tuesday night approximately 150 Mercedes S-class sedans and a host of SUVs wended their way out of Manhattan, ferrying more than 250 guests northeast to […]
September 12, 2017

Fashion Review: At Helmut Lang and Oscar de la Renta, Wrestling with History

One of the weirdest things about watching fashion shows on 9/11 — a juxtaposition that might in itself seem inappropriate but unavoidable, and has been since […]
September 11, 2017

Fashion Review: Rihanna and the Fashion X Games

A year ago Rihanna took her fashion line Fenty x Puma, only in its second season, to Paris — perhaps in search of some design legitimacy; […]
September 10, 2017

Fashion Review: A Lot of Sound and Supermodels, Signifying Not Much

On Saturday night, long after the sun had set and a pre-autumn chill had returned to the air, a horde of fashion folk were standing on […]
September 8, 2017

Open Thread: Open Thread: This Week in Style News

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 share, […]
September 7, 2017

Fashion Review: Tom Ford Rediscovers the 1990s, in a Good Way

The 1990s have been resurgent of late, largely thanks to their somewhat ignoble contributions to contemporary life: reality television and “Baywatch”; White House scandal and congressional […]