Fashion and Apparel

September 10, 2016

New York Fashion Week, Day 4: Start Early, Party Late

Weekend? What weekend? New York Fashion Week knows no such thing. On Saturday, the shows soldier on — and so, in their thrall, do we. Here’s […]
September 9, 2016

New York Fashion Week, Day 3: Upstarts, Icons and a Hadid

Good morning, New York Fashion Week. The forecast calls for a high of 94 degrees. Yesterday a woman seated in the front row wore a fur […]
September 9, 2016

The New York Cool of Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne

Nothing is more of a buzz wrecker when you’re talking about cool than talking about cool. It is not, after all, a quality one can anatomize […]
September 9, 2016

On the Runway: Behind the Scenes at British Vogue

On the Runway By ELIZABETH PATON Is any Vogue editor worth the title these days if she doesn’t have a behind-the-scenes documentary revealing her smarts and […]
September 8, 2016

Fashion Review: Selling the Experience: Tom Ford vs. Kanye West

The first two shows of New York Fashion Week weren’t shows at all. One was a piece of performance art; the other, an evening of dinner […]
September 8, 2016

Fashion Diary: Waiting for Kanye

If there were ever an audience primed for the cuckoo rigors of performance art, it is followers of fashion. Who understands duration better than those for […]
September 7, 2016

New York Fashion Week: An Oral History: The Front Row

Jockeying for Position SIMON DOONAN In the 1980s, Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta had the nouvelle society ladies. They were the celebrities within that […]
September 7, 2016

New York Fashion Week: An Oral History: The First Shows

As New York Fashion Week approaches its 75th year (the first official shows, massed under the heading of Press Week, were held in 1943), with 151 […]
September 7, 2016

Everything You Need to Know About This Crazy, Mixed-Up, (Maybe) Very Good Season

Gather ye memories while ye may: Fashion week as it has been for the last 50-plus years may, finally, be over. This is not crying wolf […]
September 6, 2016

On the Runway: Neon Makes a Point at the U.S. Open

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY Blame it on its proximity to New York Fashion Week, which officially starts on Thursday (unofficially, it starts on Wednesday), but […]