Fashion and Apparel

January 12, 2018

On the Runway: Is the Fashion Wearables Love Affair Over?

Advertisement Ssssh. Listen. Do you hear that? That resounding silence emanating from the fashion world about the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a.k.a. one of […]
January 11, 2018

Brooks Brothers Celebrates 200 Years With a Party — in Florence

Advertisement Teddy Roosevelt wore Brooks Brothers to his inauguration. So, too, did Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant. Forty of the 45 United […]
January 8, 2018

E! Network Fumbles Over #WhyWeWearBlack

Advertisement E! Entertainment built an entire two-hour pre-awards franchise on revealing to the world what designer gowns and tuxes various actors and actresses were modeling on […]
January 5, 2018

The Red Carpet Is Its Own Economy

Advertisement “For years, we’ve sold these awards shows as women, with our gowns and colors and our beautiful faces and our glamour,” the actress Eva Longoria […]
January 3, 2018

The Hospital Gown Gets a Modest Makeover

Advertisement As 2018 dawns and with it the new tax plan, the future of health care for many individuals remains uncertain. But there is at least […]
January 2, 2018

Sneaker Heads Share Secrets to Scoring the Hottest Shoes and Keeping Them Fresh

Advertisement Damien Rosa, 14 (center), and his buddies at Sneaker Con. CreditKrista Schlueter for The New York Times Sneaker Con, a gathering of shoe fanatics founded […]
December 27, 2017

Browsing: The Anti-Resolution Revolution: 5 Vows You Can Keep

Advertisement You don’t need an invitation to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding on May 19 to enjoy the ancient castle where they plan to marry, […]
December 26, 2017

9 New Fashion Brands We Discovered This Year

Advertisement CreditYou Sun Edda Gimnes “If someone had told me all of the things that would happen to me after leaving university just two years ago, […]
December 23, 2017

Unbuttoned: The Daniel Day-Lewis Version of Fantasy Fashion Diva

Advertisement Much has been made in recent weeks of “Phantom Thread,” the Paul Thomas Anderson movie about a 1950s couturier that opens, like a big present […]
December 22, 2017

On the Runway: Meghan Markle’s Sheer Top Was a Sneaky Statement for a Royal Portrait

Advertisement Meghan Markle, the soon-to-be wife of the man who is soon to be sixth in line to the British throne, set off something of a […]