Fashion and Apparel

December 7, 2016

Critic’s Notebook: Black Designers in Focus at Fashion Institute of Technology

What do the satin leotard of the Playboy Bunny, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’s first wedding gown and a wool jacquard Savile Row suit from 2016 have […]
December 5, 2016

On the Runway: Michelle Obama Makes an Italian Fashion Statement

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY On Sunday, the day of the Italian referendum that resulted in the announced resignation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Michelle Obama […]
December 3, 2016

Lapo Elkann, Fiat Heir, Goes from Playboy to Bad Boy Again

It sounded like a 1970s Scorsese film channeling Fellini: a dapper, 39-year-old Italian industrial scion claimed he was being held captive in a third-floor apartment of […]
December 3, 2016

#1LookADay: All the City’s a Stage

High on the wall of a brick building in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, a jaunty terra cotta troubadour forever plays his accordion and opens […]
December 1, 2016

Scouting Report: Fair Hopping, Parties and Shopping at Art Basel Miami Beach

Art Basel Miami Beach Edition This weekend promises a marathon for Art Basel Miami Beach snowbirds of fair hopping, parties … and shopping! Prep for the […]
November 30, 2016

On the Runway: Samantha Cameron, From 10 Downing Street to Selfridges

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY Not quite three months after standing supportively, and silently, behind her husband, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, as he resigned […]
November 28, 2016

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Beauty, Femininity and Feminism

Perhaps the most unexpected fashion icon of the year has just added another glossy credit to her name. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian-born novelist and feminist […]
November 21, 2016

On the Runway: Fashion Begins to Speak Out Against President-Elect Donald Trump

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY American fashion is emerging from its shellshocked postelection state, and is beginning to wrestle with how it is going to handle […]
November 19, 2016

Table for Three: Tom Ford, Ben Mankiewicz and a Fashion-Film Vortex

Table for Three By PHILIP GALANES WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Tom Ford was on the job as Ben Mankiewicz took a last look at himself before […]
November 17, 2016

Unbuttoned: When Miuccia Prada Met David O. Russell

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN and WESLEY MORRIS On Tuesday, in downtown Los Angeles, a new David O. Russell film, “Past Forward,” a silent, surreal story of […]