VANESSA FRIEDMAN

November 28, 2021

Virgil Abloh, Barrier-Breaking Designer, Is Dead at 41

His expansive approach to design inspired comparisons to artists including Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. For him, clothes were totems of identity. Virgil Abloh, the barrier-breaking […]
November 17, 2021

What Was Fashion Doing at COP26?

Trading buzzwords, talking circularity and grappling with the role of clothes in the climate crisis. The first time fashion got anywhere near an official United Nations […]
November 12, 2021

How Can I Channel My Inner 1930s Movie Star?

A reader asks for guidance on finding glamorous loungewear. Around Christmas and New Year’s, my husband and I enjoy watching films from the 1930s and ’40s. […]
November 3, 2021

Gucci Makes a Hollywood Entrance

LOS ANGELES — On election night in America, in the shadow of Grauman’s Chinese Theater and amid the panting anticipation for Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” […]
November 3, 2021

Eric Adams's Style: ‘Everything About You Must Say Power’

New York City’s new mayor, Eric Adams, pays a lot of attention to what he wears. You should, too. Six years ago, Eric Adams, then Brooklyn […]
October 26, 2021

Frédéric Arnault: The Newest Power Player in Luxury’s First Family

PARIS — Frédéric Arnault, the 26-year-old chief executive of TAG Heuer, may be the youngest C.E.O. of a luxury watch brand in the world. He may […]
October 21, 2021

Kyrsten Sinema’s Style Keeps Us Guessing

Sometimes a dress is just a dress. Sometimes it’s a strategy. Senator Kyrsten Sinema may have been in Europe recently on a fund-raising trip and out […]
July 12, 2021

Phoebe Philo Is Returning to Fashion With Her Own Brand

The patron saint of designing for the female gaze is back. Listen? Do you hear that? It is the intake of breath after thousands of women’s […]
July 9, 2021

A Couture Horror Story at Maison Margiela

John Galliano makes a movie, and so does Kim Jones at Fendi. Pass the popcorn. PARIS — Well, that was a plot twist no one could […]
June 18, 2021

Me and My Dad: Sophie and Arthur Elgort on Making Fashion Photography a Family Business

Also, the problems with modern magazines and what it’s like growing up with a camera in your face. When the coronavirus pandemic began, the Elgorts — […]