New York Fashion Week

February 7, 2018

Fashion Review: City Slickers

Advertisement Imaginary people play a surprisingly large role in fashion. Designers conjure them, retailers strategize for them, and we journalists try to put ourselves in their […]
February 7, 2018

‘I Try Not to Look as if I’m Trying Too Hard’

A designer may appear on the runway for only 30 seconds at the end of a show, sometimes merely poking her head out from backstage to […]
February 6, 2018

They Only Look Casual

Advertisement There she goes, strutting that strut. Her outfit is arranged just so. She’s got the bag with the umpteen-person wait list, not yet available in […]
September 19, 2017

Chasing Fashion’s Cutting Edge

Dustin Pittman’s gaze roamed the bustling back office of Century 21 on Cortlandt Street, where Kim Shui was prepping her fashion show. In an instant, he […]
September 13, 2017

Fashion Review: Ralph Lauren Wants to Take You for a Spin

On Tuesday night approximately 150 Mercedes S-class sedans and a host of SUVs wended their way out of Manhattan, ferrying more than 250 guests northeast to […]
September 12, 2017

Fashion Review: At Helmut Lang and Oscar de la Renta, Wrestling with History

One of the weirdest things about watching fashion shows on 9/11 — a juxtaposition that might in itself seem inappropriate but unavoidable, and has been since […]
September 11, 2017

Fashion Review: Rihanna and the Fashion X Games

A year ago Rihanna took her fashion line Fenty x Puma, only in its second season, to Paris — perhaps in search of some design legitimacy; […]
September 10, 2017

Fashion Review: A Lot of Sound and Supermodels, Signifying Not Much

On Saturday night, long after the sun had set and a pre-autumn chill had returned to the air, a horde of fashion folk were standing on […]
September 8, 2017

Open Thread: Open Thread: This Week in Style News

Each week, the Open Thread newsletter will offer a look from across The New York Times at the forces that shape the dress codes we share, […]
September 7, 2017

Fashion Review: Tom Ford Rediscovers the 1990s, in a Good Way

The 1990s have been resurgent of late, largely thanks to their somewhat ignoble contributions to contemporary life: reality television and “Baywatch”; White House scandal and congressional […]