Fashion and Apparel

May 17, 2017

On the Red Carpet: Stars, Diamonds and Style

When Charlize Theron wore a mismatched pair of mega-diamond earrings to the Academy Awards in February, social media went into overdrive. Echoing the recent tide of […]
May 12, 2017

On the Runway: Dior in the Desert

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY When it comes to shows, fashion loves a venue metaphor: museums, art galleries, palatial chateaus — buildings and exotic destinations of […]
May 10, 2017

LVMH and the Next Big Digital Shopping Experience

PARIS — Ian Rogers, chief digital officer of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, sat in his sunlit office on Avenue Montaigne last month, alongside a large […]
May 10, 2017

Dive Watches to Wear Forever

Like your favorite old T-shirt, timepieces with retro faces will only look better with age. Omega 1957 Trilogy Seamaster 300, $7,000, omegawatches.com. Gucci jeans, $860, gucci.com. […]
May 9, 2017

On the Runway: Can Coach Create an American Fashion Empire?

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY In 2000, a company called Pegasus Apparel Group was founded with private equity money and a big idea: Buy a group […]
May 4, 2017

Art Review: The Met’s Rei Kawakubo Show, Dressed for Defiance

In the 1980s in the New York art world and other cultural spheres, black was the new black, and the designer most responsible for this state […]
May 3, 2017

It's a Look: Should a Man Roll Up His Sleeves?

In spring, a young — or older — man’s fancy turns to rolling up his sleeves. Fashion etiquette makes it acceptable to roll them just below […]
May 2, 2017

Party Coverage: Scene City: At the Met Gala, Paying Homage to Rei Kawakubo

Party Coverage: Scene City By MATTHEW SCHNEIER She scurried up the Met Gala red carpet so quickly that if you blinked you probably missed her. She […]
May 2, 2017

Fashion Review: Reviewing the Met Gala: The Good, the Avant-Garde, the Absurd

What does it mean, as the invitation requested, to dress “Avant-Garde”? This was the question Monday night at the Met Gala, the annual fund-raising event for […]
May 1, 2017

Rei Kawakubo, the Nearly Silent Oracle of Fashion

On Friday afternoon, in a closed-off gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, teams of workers, some in lab coats and shoe covers, were circling through […]