Fashion and Apparel

July 24, 2020

He’s 83, She’s 84, and They Model Other People’s Forgotten Laundry

TAICHUNG, Taiwan — At Wansho Laundry in central Taiwan, most dirty clothes dropped off to be steamed or washed or dry-cleaned end up right back in […]
July 23, 2020

Ann Taylor and Lane Bryant Owner Ascena Retail Files for Bankruptcy

The owner of Ann Taylor and Lane Bryant, which just a few years ago was one of the country’s largest clothing retailers for women and girls, […]
July 23, 2020

‘Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful’ Review: Man With a Camera

Any artist who visibly raises the hackles of Susan Sontag deserves a closer look, and Gero von Boehm’s “Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful” is […]
July 22, 2020

When Brad Photographed Gwyneth

The relationship between photographer and subject has been fraught since long before Susan Sontag characterized it as part of the “shady commerce between art and truth” […]
July 22, 2020

Diane von Furstenberg’s Brand Is Left Exposed by the Pandemic

At the end of February, just as the coronavirus was beginning to cast its pall over Europe, an elite crowd that included the likes of Anna […]
July 17, 2020

Milan Has Some Reasons to Be Cheerful

There is nothing like a week of watching designer infomercials to make you long for the return of fashion shows IRL. Those sometimes infuriating, often perplexing, […]
July 17, 2020

A Fashion Show Epilogue. Or Was It an Elegy?

In 1964 Andy Warhol trained a camera on the Empire State Building for about six and a half hours, in a meditation on the nature of […]
July 16, 2020

Saying Goodbye to Totokaelo

Jill Wenger, the founder of the boutique Totokaelo, described her former customers like this: “Mature. Women that were not interested in doing what everyone else was […]
July 15, 2020

For Paris Men’s Wear, the Next Stop Is California

We have seen the future of European fashion, and it is California. Peering out from behind the curtain of a long lockdown, designers in Paris and […]
July 9, 2020

Digital Dior. Remote Chanel. What’s Couture With No Runway?

Is this a front row anyone really wants to join? After three days seated at my dining room table, watching what was effectively Quibi for fashion […]