Fashion and Apparel

December 8, 2016

Encounters: The Violinist Charlie Siem Strikes a High Note in Fashion

Encounters By ELIZABETH PATON LONDON — His chiseled features have fronted a campaign for the British men’s brand Dunhill, smoldered in black-and-white advertisements for Giorgio Armani […]
December 8, 2016

List of Five: The Straightforward Style of the Polymathic B.J. Novak

As if working on a laugh line until it’s just right, B. J. Novak has refined his look over the years. The actor and writer, who […]
December 8, 2016

Party Coverage: Scene City: The Fashion World Honors Carolina Herrera With a Little Help From Diana Ross

Party Coverage: Scene City By STUART EMMRICH Carolina Herrera has had quite a year. The fashion designer, best known early in her career for the wedding […]
December 7, 2016

Critic’s Notebook: Black Designers in Focus at Fashion Institute of Technology

What do the satin leotard of the Playboy Bunny, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’s first wedding gown and a wool jacquard Savile Row suit from 2016 have […]
December 5, 2016

On the Runway: Michelle Obama Makes an Italian Fashion Statement

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY On Sunday, the day of the Italian referendum that resulted in the announced resignation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Michelle Obama […]
December 3, 2016

Lapo Elkann, Fiat Heir, Goes from Playboy to Bad Boy Again

It sounded like a 1970s Scorsese film channeling Fellini: a dapper, 39-year-old Italian industrial scion claimed he was being held captive in a third-floor apartment of […]
December 3, 2016

#1LookADay: All the City’s a Stage

High on the wall of a brick building in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, a jaunty terra cotta troubadour forever plays his accordion and opens […]
December 1, 2016

Scouting Report: Fair Hopping, Parties and Shopping at Art Basel Miami Beach

Art Basel Miami Beach Edition This weekend promises a marathon for Art Basel Miami Beach snowbirds of fair hopping, parties … and shopping! Prep for the […]
November 30, 2016

On the Runway: Samantha Cameron, From 10 Downing Street to Selfridges

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY Not quite three months after standing supportively, and silently, behind her husband, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, as he resigned […]
November 28, 2016

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Beauty, Femininity and Feminism

Perhaps the most unexpected fashion icon of the year has just added another glossy credit to her name. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian-born novelist and feminist […]