September 29, 2023

Maximalism Gets Its Revenge at Paris Fashion Week

Stealth wealth? Quiet luxury? Marni, Balmain and Schiaparelli beg to differ. Rick Owens has his own ideas. It was, perhaps, inevitable. “Succession,” the compulsively watchable, moment-defining […]
March 2, 2023

In Paris, Intimate Encounters at Balmain and Dries Van Noten

Dries Van Noten and Olivier Rousteing of Balmain get personal. PARIS — For so long (even, maybe especially, after the brief Covid hiatus) so much of […]
March 12, 2021

Beyond Trend: An Honest Conversation About Fashion, Race, Elitism and Community

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Beyond Trend: An Honest Conversation About Fashion, Race, Elitism and Community Four industry […]
January 19, 2020

Fighting Back With Color

PARIS — “Fashion week is like the playoffs, like a championship,’’ the musician Quavo said as he made the rounds here this week. “There are some […]
October 16, 2019

Olivier Rousteing and Isabelle Huppert Take Manhattan

Olivier Rousteing, the creative director of Balmain, is too busy to be a bad boy. The enfant respectable of Paris fashion (who was just 25 when […]
September 28, 2019

Inside the Fashion Bubble

PARIS — When a parade of black-robed figures files solemnly by, each wielding a long, narrow black scepter, or spear (it was hard to tell), and […]
September 26, 2017

In the Studio: Olivier Rousteing on the Importance of Breaking the Rules

In the Studio By ELIZABETH PATON In the latest installment of this series that goes inside the private working worlds of designers, Olivier Rousteing, creative director […]
June 28, 2017

Fashion Review: Dior Homme Stays in Its Safe Space

PARIS — A decade into his stint at Dior Homme, Kris Van Assche is plainly doing something right. Even before the days of revolving-door designers, a […]