Fashion and Apparel

September 23, 2020

Is the New Guards Group the New Guard of Fashion?

Davide De Giglio is not your typical luxury fashion mogul. He does not wear a slickly tailored suit, possess an expensive M.B.A., hold court from the […]
September 22, 2020

London Fashion Week Gives Good TV

“An artist’s duty, as far as I am concerned, is to reflect the times.” That was Nina Simone, in the vintage video shot that opened Gareth […]
September 22, 2020

Can Luxury Fashion Ever Regain Its Luster?

This is usually a busy month for the luxury industry. Not long after glossy fashion magazines publish their all-important September issues, thousands of retail buyers, journalists […]
September 22, 2020

Find Yourself a Tailor. It’s Not Fancy, It’s Freeing.

Often when I tell someone about my tailoring habit — say, by referring in an offhand way to “my tailor” — I can see they are […]
September 19, 2020

Things to Do This Week

Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. […]
September 19, 2020

On Racism and British Fashion

“I’ve always considered myself an outsider,” Osman Yousefzada said last week, sitting on a park bench near his home in North London. “Often, I’ve also been […]
September 18, 2020

The Burberry Show Was Not About a Cult

It is almost impossible these days to see billowing orange smoke in a densely wooded forest and not feel portents of doom. Especially when the smoke […]
September 16, 2020

Sweatpants Are Not Forever

So to New York Fashion Week, the first event of the pandemic-doused world that may provide at least the inkling of an answer to the questions […]
September 14, 2020

What Happened at New York’s First Pandemic Fashion Show?

Jason Wu said he was feeling Zen, swiveling in an office chair in his studio near Penn Station. It was Saturday afternoon, the day before his […]
September 11, 2020

Back to School With Tan France

Three years ago at an Embassy Suites in Glendale, Calif., Antoni Porowski spotted his soon-to-be co-star Tan France in the hotel’s gym. Mr. France was wearing […]