July 17, 2020

A Fashion Show Epilogue. Or Was It an Elegy?

In 1964 Andy Warhol trained a camera on the Empire State Building for about six and a half hours, in a meditation on the nature of […]
March 11, 2020

Fashion’s Coronavirus ‘Patient Zero’ Speaks

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March 11, 2020

Luxury’s Hidden Indian Supply Chain

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February 14, 2020

Shuttered Stores, Fewer Tourists: Luxury Feels Coronavirus Effects

LONDON — Chinese tourists normally flock to Bond Street, home to some of the most expensive retail space in the world. They gather behind the velvet […]
February 4, 2020

Miuccia Prada Will Be Getting Sensitivity Training

In December 2018, Chinyere Ezie, a civil rights lawyer, posted a picture on Twitter that seemed to encapsulate a year’s worth of racial and cultural faux […]
January 27, 2020

Billie Eilish Didn’t Just Win Five Grammys

Even before Billie Eilish took home five Grammys on Sunday, she had already won the night, at least as far as the game of super-one-upmanship that […]
March 14, 2019

We’re All Drinking Diet Prada Now

Calling out collaborators and copycats! Will success spoil a fashion watchdog account?
December 6, 2017

Gucci Moves Its Fine Jewelry Line Upmarket

Advertisement MILAN — These are flush times for Gucci, the 96-year-old house that in recent years has become fashion’s all-conquering luxury brand. And amid booming sales, […]
May 31, 2017

Did Gucci Copy ‘Dapper Dan’? Or Was It ‘Homage’?

Who knocks off the knockers-off? Who bootlegs the bootleggers? It is not quite as Juvenal, the great Roman satirist, once put it (“who watches the watchmen?”), […]
May 30, 2017

The Gucci Resort Renaissance

FLORENCE — At Gucci, people like to call Alessandro Michele the renaissance man. Since his ascent to the role of creative director just over two years […]