Fashion and Apparel

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 […]
July 9, 2020

Watch: The Paris Men's Fashion Week Videos

What was once Paris Men’s Fashion Week is now everyone’s fashion week. Good! It is also fully a digital fashion week — so you’re invited to […]
July 8, 2020

Brooks Brothers, Founded in 1818, Files for Bankruptcy

Brooks Brothers, the retailer known for dressing the great and good of the United States since 1818, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, buckling under the pressure […]
July 8, 2020

A Fashion Model For the Moment

How to have a fashion show during a pandemic is one of the immediate questions facing designers this week, as what would have been the couture […]
July 7, 2020

In Paris, Haute Couture Face Masks for All

There are disposable masks bought in bulk: light blue, three-ply, fastened with white elastic hoops. There are D.I.Y. masks, stitched at home, and designer masks, sold […]