Fashion and Apparel

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, […]
August 16, 2017

The Rebranding of the Bronx

In the late 1980s, Bruckner Boulevard was a forbidding stretch of asphalt strung with disused factories, dim tattoo parlors and fast-food depots. The thoroughfare, blisteringly sketched […]
August 7, 2017

On the Runway: Walmart Heirs Snap Up Rapha, the British Bikewear Brand

Elizabeth Paton ON THE RUNWAY LONDON — Rapha, the upmarket British bikewear brand credited with bringing fashionable as well as functional garments to the booming cycling […]
August 3, 2017

Unbuttoned: Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Optics of Relatable Style

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN Well, that look didn’t last long. After a very brief 10-day interlude of in-your-face bluster draped in Loro Piana tailoring courtesy of […]
August 3, 2017

Cover Story: The Samuel L. Jackson Method

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Right now, as you are reading this, Samuel L. Jackson is on a yacht in the Mediterranean, perhaps standing on the fantail, […]
July 31, 2017

List of Five: 2 Chainz’s Style? It’s More Like 7 Chains

The rapper 2 Chainz (born Tauheed Epps) loves jewelry so much that he usually wears more than two chains at a time, even when he sleeps. […]