VANESSA FRIEDMAN

August 26, 2020

Melania Trump, Dressed for Battle. But Which One?

On the second night of the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump came dressed for battle. She strode alone down the white-pillared colonnade of the White House […]
August 25, 2020

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the R.N.C.'s Woman in Red

Red states. Reagan red. The red of President Trump’s favorite ties. There’s so much red in the recent mythology of the Republican Party, it’s little wonder, […]
August 21, 2020

Joe Biden Says Goodbye, Uncle Joe and Hello, Father of the Nation

He is no longer “Uncle Joe.” Joseph R. Biden Jr., now officially the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, has dabbled in various imagery over the years, […]
August 17, 2020

Why We Cover What Politicians Wear

Ever since Kamala Harris was announced as Joe Biden’s choice for vice president, making her the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent […]
July 22, 2020

When Brad Photographed Gwyneth

The relationship between photographer and subject has been fraught since long before Susan Sontag characterized it as part of the “shady commerce between art and truth” […]
July 17, 2020

A Fashion Show Epilogue. Or Was It an Elegy?

In 1964 Andy Warhol trained a camera on the Empire State Building for about six and a half hours, in a meditation on the nature of […]
July 12, 2020

Who Was That Masked Man?

In the end, the most surprising aspect of President Donald J. Trump’s decision to finally, months after his own advisers recommended it, bow to medical wisdom […]
July 9, 2020

Digital Dior. Remote Chanel. What’s Couture With No Runway?

Is this a front row anyone really wants to join? After three days seated at my dining room table, watching what was effectively Quibi for fashion […]
July 6, 2020

From ‘Game of Thrones’ to Digital Couture

In March, the couture collections as everyone knew them — the ultimate visual extravaganzas of fashion artistry, handmade for the very few — were canceled because […]
June 15, 2020

Matthew Williams Takes Over Givenchy

Change is coming for Givenchy. The French brand is going to emerge from coronavirus confinement with not just new social distancing rules, but a whole new […]