Fashion and Apparel

October 2, 2020

Fungus May Be Fall’s Hottest Fashion Trend

It may be fashion week in Paris, with showgoers in face coverings parsing runway looks from the latest designer ready-to-wear collections, but several thousand miles away […]
October 2, 2020

Rihanna Talks About Her Fenty Show

There are no real parties. Concerts? Canceled. Fashion shows are either digital or distanced. So who would dare throw a party-concert-fashion show in the middle — […]
September 30, 2020

Isabelle Huppert on the Transformational Power of Shoes

To channel an unhinged cat lady, Isabelle Huppert wears pointy mustard mules. To embody a diva courting eternal youth, she wears electric purple pumps embellished with […]
September 30, 2020

Who’s a Fashion Victim Now?

In a sign of just how upside down and surreal the idea of fashion is at the moment, at the end of the Dior show on […]
September 28, 2020

In Milan, Fashion Tries to Go Back to Normal. What Does That Even Mean?

In 1975 Valentino Garavani, then the most feted couturier in Rome, moved his ready-to-wear show from Italy to Paris, the better to underscore his position as […]
September 26, 2020

Keith Hufnagel, Pro Skateboarder and Entrepreneur, Dies at 46

Keith Hufnagel, a professional skateboarder who grew a San Francisco streetwear store, Huf, into a global apparel company by the same name, died on Thursday at […]
September 24, 2020

Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada Make Civil Discourse Look Lovely

In the normal course of human events, it would have been the biggest show of the fashion season in Milan. Possibly the most anticipated show of […]
September 23, 2020

Is the New Guards Group the New Guard of Fashion?

Davide De Giglio is not your typical luxury fashion mogul. He does not wear a slickly tailored suit, possess an expensive M.B.A., hold court from the […]
September 22, 2020

London Fashion Week Gives Good TV

“An artist’s duty, as far as I am concerned, is to reflect the times.” That was Nina Simone, in the vintage video shot that opened Gareth […]
September 22, 2020

Can Luxury Fashion Ever Regain Its Luster?

This is usually a busy month for the luxury industry. Not long after glossy fashion magazines publish their all-important September issues, thousands of retail buyers, journalists […]