Fashion and Apparel

February 10, 2022

Humberto Leon Makes Merch For Chifa, His Los Angeles Restaurant

The designer Humberto Leon talks about love and merch at Chifa, his family’s Los Angeles restaurant. A year ago, Humberto Leon opened a restaurant with his […]
February 9, 2022

Jerome Chazen, Original Partner in Liz Claiborne Empire, Dies at 94

One of a core group early on, he helped the company outfit a generation of working women, marketing its wares and working closely with department stores […]
February 9, 2022

Nino Cerruti Gave Elegance a Good Name

The Italian designer is credited with having pioneered Italian ready-to-wear. He was also the most elegant man many people ever met. Elegance, Nino Cerruti once said, […]
January 28, 2022

Yves Saint Laurent at 5 French Museums

For the first time, one designer’s work is being showcased — simultaneously — at five major French museums. PARIS — Sixty years to the day after […]
January 26, 2022

Can Hugo Boss Actually Be Cool?

The brand built by selling Wall Street suits is trying to reinvent itself for the post-office age. On a sun-soaked day in Milan last fall, Hugo […]
January 24, 2022

Thierry Mugler, Genre-Busting French Fashion Designer, Dies at 73

The dominatrix-loving couturier turned sex into a style weapon. Thierry Mugler, the outrageous, genre-busting French designer who dominated European runways in the late 1980s and early […]
January 23, 2022

André Leon Talley, Fashion's Last Great Editor

There is a scene early in “The September Issue,” the 2009 documentary about the making of the year’s door-stopper Vogue magazine, that features a meeting between […]
January 20, 2022

What to Wear in the Metaverse

Late in October, when Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the rebranding of Facebook as Meta, he did so in an immersive video designed to reveal his vision of […]
January 19, 2022

Designer Ervin Latimer Debuts at Pitti Uomo

Inspired by American drag ball culture, the young Finnish designer Ervin Latimer staged a raucous, gender-ambivalent throwdown for his Pitti Uomo debut. FLORENCE, Italy — Radical […]
January 18, 2022

At Prada, It’s in With the Old

Opening their fall show with Kyle MacLachlan and closing it with Jeff Goldblum, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons make a case for dressing up like grown-ups. […]