FLORENCE, Italy — Radical queer energy is eternal. For millenniums it has endured suppression, oppression, legal, religious and moral sanction, torture, witch hunts, pogroms, a holocaust, caricature and stereotype and several plagues. Yet it survives and thrives in all its subversive glory, surfacing in the most unlikely of places. Take, for example, Anna Konda. This…
Craig BarrittGetty Images Renowned fashion journalist and editor André Leon Talley has died at age 73 in New York. The news was confirmed on Talley’s Instagram account, via a heartfelt tribute to the legendary fashion journalist that detailed his life and career. It read: “Mr. Talley was the larger-than-life, longtime creative director at Vogue during…
But family life was not the walk on the beach portrayed in the famous Robert Capa photograph of Ms. Gilot traipsing on the sand at Golfe-Juan in the South of France, Picasso screening her with a colossal parasol. In darker moments, he was given to parading in front of her a string of would-be rivals,…
“Don’t stop inviting divorced friends to parties just because they are single and call them on holidays even years after the divorce is over,” said Ms. Englund. When Amy Armstrong, a family therapist in Columbus, Ohio, went through her own divorce, finding friends able to listen without turning her story into drama — or gossip…
The phrase “crop top” was not in Laken Brooks’s vocabulary before March 2020. Months of working from home at the start of the pandemic, though, gave the 27-year-old Ph.D. candidate a chance to re-evaluate her fashion choices. So when the chance to own a cropped T-shirt — short sleeved and charcoal gray with images of…
MILAN — Just about the last “ism” no one gets noisy about is the one regarding age. Fashion, in particular, has been a chronic offender, fetishizing millennials and tapping a foot while waiting for the olds to pack up and check into a home. It is common business knowledge that baby boomers outspend consumers from…
MILAN — Sometimes it’s the random adjacencies that make you savor life. You can’t exactly call it coincidence — or even entirely unexpected — that one moment during fashion week you find yourself sitting at Zegna corporate headquarters viewing a men’s wear show from a venerable house that went public, and abruptly ditched its trademark…
What’s in a Name? When I was a newlywed nearly 30 years ago, my mother-in-law would introduce me as “Debby, Dave’s wife; she didn’t take his name.” It was true, but it rankled me because she was otherwise very gracious and accepting. So I made light of it. “You should be grateful we have different…
Tyler Joe My closet has seen its fair share of earrings, necklaces, and handbags, but if there was one accessory that reigns supreme in my kingdom of over-accessorizing, it’s sunglasses. From oval to oversized, nothing changes up an outfit of mine quite like a good pair of sunnies. I could keep a fit tame with…
When the actor Kyle MacLachlan opened the Prada men’s wear show in Milan on Sunday, many were surprised and delighted to see Special Agent Dale Cooper strut the runway. But others wondered if Mr. MacLachlan was in fact making a return to fashion. In 1992, he was part of a campaign for Barneys New York,…