Fashion and Apparel

September 7, 2016

New York Fashion Week: An Oral History: The Front Row

Jockeying for Position SIMON DOONAN In the 1980s, Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta had the nouvelle society ladies. They were the celebrities within that […]
September 7, 2016

New York Fashion Week: An Oral History: The First Shows

As New York Fashion Week approaches its 75th year (the first official shows, massed under the heading of Press Week, were held in 1943), with 151 […]
September 7, 2016

Everything You Need to Know About This Crazy, Mixed-Up, (Maybe) Very Good Season

Gather ye memories while ye may: Fashion week as it has been for the last 50-plus years may, finally, be over. This is not crying wolf […]
September 6, 2016

On the Runway: Neon Makes a Point at the U.S. Open

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY Blame it on its proximity to New York Fashion Week, which officially starts on Thursday (unofficially, it starts on Wednesday), but […]
September 3, 2016

Up Next: The Man and Spirit Behind GucciGhost, Gucci’s Renegade Line

Up Next By ANN BINLOT NAME Trevor Andrew AGE 37 HOMETOWN Falmouth, Nova Scotia NOW LIVES In a brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, with his wife, the […]
August 31, 2016

Scene City: Rihanna, Drake and DJ Khaled Party After the V.M.A.’s

Scene City By BEN DETRICK Without meat dresses or controversial interruptions, the MTV Video Music Awards, held Sunday at Madison Square Garden, lacked some of the […]
August 27, 2016

Venus Williams, Off the Court

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Venus Williams’s ability to get around a tennis court quickly is well known. She is 6-foot-1 and nearly can get from […]
August 25, 2016

Sonia Rykiel, Fashion Designer for the ‘Fragile, but Strong,’ Dies at 86

Sonia Rykiel, the Paris fashion designer who planted her contrarian flag on the Left Bank in the 1960s, flouted haute couture conventions and created chic ready-to-wear […]
August 25, 2016

Up Next: Kelsey Lu McJunkins, Hitting the Stages of Afropunk and Barclays Center

Up Next By JOANNA NIKAS AGE 27 HOMETOWN Charlotte, N.C. NOW LIVES Between apartments. She recently lived in a three-story brownstone in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but she […]
August 23, 2016

Day Out: Orchestrating the Past

Last Sunday at the twice-yearly Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island, revelers bravely attempted to recreate 1920s cool in the face of hideous heat and […]