Alaia, Azzedine

August 10, 2022

The Lycra Legacy of Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Physical’

Athleisure, leggings, shapewear owe a debt of gratitude to the iconic video. A funny thing happened when Kameron Lennox revisited the music video for “Physical,” the […]
March 1, 2020

Alaïa and Lagerfeld: The Lives of Very Different Men

People in fashion are obsessed with time. It’s why designers talk about being inspired by ages: gilded, jazz, space or medieval. It’s why fashion writers reference […]
January 26, 2018

The Top 10 Moments From Couture Week

Advertisement 1. The Fashion Crowd Honored Alaïa The collections kicked off this season with a different kind of show: a homage to the designer Azzedine Alaïa, […]
December 13, 2017

The Year in Stuff

Advertisement It was a year that felt like a decade: 2017 saw the arrival of a new president (and an at-the-ready resistance movement), the unsealing of […]
November 24, 2017

Open Thread: Open Thread: This Week in Style News

Advertisement 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 […]
November 20, 2017

Remembering Azzedine Alaïa: The Designer Who Took Time

Advertisement The last time I saw Azzedine Alaïa, the Tunisian-French designer who died this past weekend and was possibly the last of the great couturiers, it […]
November 18, 2017

Azzedine Alaïa, Fashion’s Most Independent Designer, Is Dead at 82

Advertisement Azzedine Alaïa, one of the greatest and most uncompromising designers of the 20th and 21st centuries, has died in Paris. He was 82. The cause […]