VANESSA FRIEDMAN

October 1, 2017

Fashion Review: The Verdict on Clare Waight Keller’s Givenchy

PARIS — It takes a certain amount of gumption to hold your first show for a historic French brand in the echoing, imposing halls of the […]
September 26, 2017

Reinventing Givenchy

PARIS — One day in July, not long after Clare Waight Keller had begun work as the first female artistic director of Givenchy — succeeding its […]
September 20, 2017

At Italian Vogue, a New Beginning

In January, not long after returning from his winter holiday, Emanuele Farneti, the 42-year-old editor of Italian GQ, was chatting with a media friend when the […]
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 […]
September 6, 2017

Is It New York Fashion Week? Or Is It Rihanna Inc.?

Is New York Fashion Week, which officially begins Thursday but actually begins Wednesday (thank you, Tom Ford), a dead duck? Is it a sinking ship, in […]