Fashion and Apparel

May 23, 2017

Styles Q. and A.: Pedro Winter on Daft Punk and the Paris Party Scene He Defined

Back in the early aughts, Ed Banger Records was the leading exporter of glitchy French electronic dance music and a Parisian cool-kid scene that orgiastically blended […]
May 22, 2017

Fendi’s Gift to Rome: A Sculpture Shaped Like a Tree

PIETRASANTA, Italy — Shading his eyes from the warm Tuscan sun, the artist Giuseppe Penone watched as a crane hoisted a bronze tree trunk into position […]
May 19, 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, […]
May 17, 2017

We Settle a Big Fashion Rivalry: Nashville vs. Columbus

A hot fashion rivalry is underway thousands of miles from the runways of Milan and Paris. It has nothing to do with couture houses or red […]
May 17, 2017

On the Red Carpet: Stars, Diamonds and Style

When Charlize Theron wore a mismatched pair of mega-diamond earrings to the Academy Awards in February, social media went into overdrive. Echoing the recent tide of […]
May 12, 2017

On the Runway: Dior in the Desert

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY When it comes to shows, fashion loves a venue metaphor: museums, art galleries, palatial chateaus — buildings and exotic destinations of […]
May 10, 2017

LVMH and the Next Big Digital Shopping Experience

PARIS — Ian Rogers, chief digital officer of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, sat in his sunlit office on Avenue Montaigne last month, alongside a large […]
May 10, 2017

Dive Watches to Wear Forever

Like your favorite old T-shirt, timepieces with retro faces will only look better with age. Omega 1957 Trilogy Seamaster 300, $7,000, omegawatches.com. Gucci jeans, $860, gucci.com. […]
May 9, 2017

On the Runway: Can Coach Create an American Fashion Empire?

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY In 2000, a company called Pegasus Apparel Group was founded with private equity money and a big idea: Buy a group […]
May 4, 2017

Art Review: The Met’s Rei Kawakubo Show, Dressed for Defiance

In the 1980s in the New York art world and other cultural spheres, black was the new black, and the designer most responsible for this state […]