Fashion and Apparel

September 6, 2017

Critical Shopper: Raf Simons Knows What America Needs

Critical Shopper By KATHERINE BERNARD The three floors of the newly renovated Calvin Klein store on Madison Avenue are painted yellow, the kind of color saturation […]
September 6, 2017

Is It New York Fashion Week? Or Is It Rihanna Inc.?

Is New York Fashion Week, which officially begins Thursday but actually begins Wednesday (thank you, Tom Ford), a dead duck? Is it a sinking ship, in […]
September 2, 2017

EJ Johnson Is ‘Not Just Some Other Rich Girl’

“Today we are talking about breaking boundaries,” EJ Johnson declared from the stage of Beautycon, a two-day cosmetics festival held in August at the Los Angeles […]
September 2, 2017

Celine Dion Loves You. And You. And You.

Annick Chenard, 38, has seen Celine Dion in concert 21 times and also has a large tattoo of Ms. Dion’s face and flowing hair on her […]
September 1, 2017

Work, Work, Work. Love, Love, Love.

When Stephanie Horbaczewski met Gordon Clemons, romance was the last thing on her mind. At the time, January 2014, Ms. Horbaczewski was the chief executive of […]
August 30, 2017

Agent Provocateur Founder Unveils a New Lingerie Label

LONDON — Serena Rees, a founder of Agent Provocateur, who earned herself a fortune in the 1990s by making kinky lingerie a wardrobe staple, sat on […]
August 29, 2017

Home and Work: From a Beloved Children’s Boutique to a French Décor Store

Home and Work By AMY SERAFIN Over the course of more than 40 years, Marie-France Cohen joined her husband, Bernard, on countless adventures. The creatively fecund […]
August 24, 2017

Its Competitors Make Noise, but A.P.C. Is Happy to Make Clothes

PARIS — There is an indelible truth about A.P.C., the willfully anonymous French fashion label that has been quietly going about its business for three decades, […]
August 22, 2017

Hollywood Image-Makers Work Their Magic on U.F.C. Brawlers

For bloodthirsty sports fans, no professional sports organization has provided more entertainment than Ultimate Fighting Championship. Led by its combative, publicity-mad president, Dana White Jr., it […]
August 17, 2017

Jun Takahashi, the Sorcerer of Fashion

EARLY THIS YEAR, on a stage in Paris, a silent figure stepped under a spotlight. She was wearing a double-layered honeycomb-net skirt made of red organza, […]