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November 3, 2016

Alasdhair Willis, Hunter Boot Man, Doesn’t Mind the Rain

LONDON — Talking about the weather is a British national pastime. For Alasdhair Willis, the creative director of Hunter and the husband of the fashion designer […]
November 2, 2016

For Election Night, the Champagne Loses Its Fizz

Way back before the primaries, when the coming presidential election seemed like just another quadrennial exercise of our nation’s democratic ideals and not a referendum on […]
November 2, 2016

On Time: 3-D Printing Pioneer Goes Low Tech, With a $5,800 Watch Made in Brooklyn

On Time By ALEX WILLIAMS Seven years ago, Bre Pettis established himself as a Silicon Alley futurist when he helped found MakerBot, a pioneering Brooklyn company […]
November 1, 2016

On the Runway: Will.i.am Moves Wearables Off the Wrist With the Help of Kendall Jenner and Apple

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY Wearable technology is finally beginning to go beyond the wrist. “Why should you have to take off your earphones when you […]
November 1, 2016

Watches See a ‘Brexit’ Boom

LONDON — The effect on the value of the pound of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has rarely been out of the headlines since […]
November 1, 2016

Reviving Fears for a New Generation of Watch Fans

When Nicholas Bowman-Scargill’s mother made a joke at a Sunday lunch about restarting the family’s 170-year-old Fears watch business, he laughed. The company closed 60 years […]
November 1, 2016

Audemars Piguet on Display in Shanghai

With some 200 timepieces on display until Nov. 13, “To Break the Rules, You Must First Master Them,” an exhibition at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, […]
October 31, 2016

Whoopi Goldberg Plays Fashion Designer (for Real)

Whoopi Goldberg has been many things — actor, producer, talk show host — but designer has not been among them. As of this week, however, that […]
October 29, 2016

Who Owns Cheerleader Uniform Designs? It’s up to the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will spend part of Halloween hearing arguments about fashion, in a case that aims to determine whether anyone can own the stripes on […]
October 28, 2016

Vows: Geneviève DeBose and Tosin Akinnagbe: He’s No Shakespeare. Romeo? Maybe.

Vows By TAMMY La GORCE If Geneviève DeBose were something other than a seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher, she might have been less dismissive of the […]