GUY TREBAY

February 5, 2018

Opening New York Men’s Fashion Men’s Week: A Show With No Men

Advertisement Is the future of men’s wear nonbinary people? It is if the designers behind the indie label Krammer & Stoudt are to be believed. In […]
January 15, 2018

Ms. Fendi and Ms. Prada and All Their Baggage

Advertisement MILAN — Founded here in 1913 as a luggage purveyor to the local carriage trade, Fratelli Prada probably would not have become a synonym for […]
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 […]
December 27, 2017

Make Mine the Burlap Wrap

How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York. Workers in the East Side Access tunnel, […]
December 14, 2017

Sag Harbor’s Historic Cinema Saved

Advertisement SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — It was a cliffhanger ending out of silent film-era two-reeler. Just days before the anniversary of the fire that partly destroyed […]
November 18, 2017

For the First Family of Pleasure Products, Toys Are Us

LOS ANGELES — Back in 1976, when Chad Braverman’s father, Ron, invested a small grubstake in a manufacturing start-up, consumers bought his products at the back […]
November 17, 2017

For Lisa Eisner, ‘Money Never, Ever Motivates Me’

Advertisement LOS ANGELES — Lisa Eisner is trying to get us killed. We are in her Lexus wagon, slicing through three lanes of high-speed traffic from […]
September 28, 2017

In the Studio: Virgil Abloh, the Mixmaster of Fashion

In the Studio By GUY TREBAY MILAN — In the latest installment of our video series exploring the private working worlds of designers, Virgil Abloh — […]
July 26, 2017

Digital Artist Yung Jake Scores With Emoji Portraits

They flow ceaselessly through the text panels on our smartphones, these ubiquitous ideograms used to convey facts or feelings or perhaps nothing at all. They have […]
July 19, 2017

A Museum Show Asks: How Modern Are Your Spanx?

Most famous of the quips attributed to the Austrian-born American designer Rudi Gernreich — now best remembered for his unisex creations and the topless bathing suit […]