Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The past month has been a whirlwind for luxury brands, models and fashion fans as designers have promoted their visions at Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Milan and now Paris. The hundreds of shows…
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Before the Balenciaga show, Demna, the mononymic creative director of the brand, went shopping. Specifically, he bought 800 different objects on eBay, which he haunts for the porcelain figurines, lace napkins and antique fabrics he collects. But he didn’t buy the 800 pieces for himself: He bought one for each guest at his show. The…
Do designers really expect us to wear those outlandish looks they show on the runway? I look at the images and can’t imagine anyone walking down a street in most of those clothes, no matter where they lived. — Mary, Auckland, New Zealand This is one of those questions I have been asked pretty much…
Men’s style, if you haven’t noticed, has made a quantum leap in recent years. That has been especially true on the red carpet, where guys have gone from wearing generic tuxedos to dressing like Timothée Chalamet, who at the Golden Globes in January wore a Celine Homme sequin-studded blazer and a diamond necklace by Cartier.…
Women have always been active members of the watch community, even during periods when their contributions were not all that easy to discern. But today, it is obvious that women are among the executives who direct the brands, the artisans who create the timepieces, the media that chronicles the industry and the customers whose purchases…
Anyone who regularly scrolls through watch content online probably has seen him, the dark-haired guy wearing a jacket covered in wristwatches. He also frequents events like the annual trade show Watches and Wonders Geneva. Last year, he stole some of the spotlight there with videos featuring the likes of Laurent Perves, chief commercial officer at…
Kate Winslet was standing in front of a microphone, breathing hard. Sometimes she did it fast; sometimes she slowed it down. Sometimes the breathing sounded anxious; other times, it was clearly the gasping of someone who was winded. Before beginning a new take, Winslet stood stock still, hands opening and closing at her sides; she…
José Miranda, the co-founder of Isotope Watches, remembers the first time he ever saw Johanna Nordblad. It was in the 2016 film “Johanna,” directed by the British filmmaker Ian Derry. The short movie showed the world-ranked free diver swimming, mermaid-like, under the ice on a lake in her native Finland, at times peering up through…
There often is a subtle difference between the way men and women collect things. Many men tend to take a systematic approach, choosing pieces that mesh with the rest of their possessions, be they stamps, cars or watches. A woman, however, may have a hundred pairs of shoes, but whether or not they amount to…