Couture (Fashion)

July 5, 2020

Couture Fashion: Here's What Happened

In a pre-coronavirus world, hundreds of editors, clients, stylists and celebrities would have converged on Paris this weekend, clacking over the cobblestones in their kitten heels […]
July 4, 2020

The Unsung Heroes of Fashion, Now Mostly Unemployed

In a pre-coronavirus world, hundreds of editors, clients, stylists and celebrities would have converged on Paris this weekend, clacking over the cobblestones in their kitten heels […]
February 26, 2020

Is Virgil Abloh the Karl Lagerfeld for Millennials?

Virgil Abloh, the founder of Off-White and the men’s wear designer of Louis Vuitton, is the kind of fashion figure that seems to demand comparison. Almost […]
January 26, 2018

The Top 10 Moments From Couture Week

Advertisement 1. The Fashion Crowd Honored Alaïa The collections kicked off this season with a different kind of show: a homage to the designer Azzedine Alaïa, […]
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 […]
November 20, 2017

Remembering Azzedine Alaïa: The Designer Who Took Time

Advertisement The last time I saw Azzedine Alaïa, the Tunisian-French designer who died this past weekend and was possibly the last of the great couturiers, it […]
July 3, 2017

Fashion Review: Elemental Truths at Iris Van Herpen and Schiaparelli

PARIS — When the world itself becomes surreal — when every day you look at the headlines and can barely believe your eyes — what’s the […]
May 25, 2017

Balenciaga, Fashion’s Original Provocateur

LONDON — The internet went into its now de rigueur frenzy recently after Balenciaga released a blue, roughly $2,000, trapezoidal tote, created by the artistic director […]
September 21, 2016

Jane Fonda: The Reluctant Fashionista

When the model Grace Hartzel opened Tom Ford’s spring 2017 show in a striking shag haircut, the inspiration was unmistakable — at least to those over […]
July 4, 2016

Fashion Cheers the Reopening of the Paris Ritz

This may be a Paris couture season marked by external unease — by Brexit shock waves, anticipation of upheaval at two haute maisons, continued terrorism fears […]