Ganni Girls Like to Have Fun

The Reffstrups took over the small cashmere brand, founded by Frans Truelsen, in 2009. At the time, Ms. Reffstrup was a buyer in Copenhagen and felt boxed in by the stereotypes of cold androgyny or flower-crown-wearing bohemian that defined Scandinavian style. Mr. Reffstrup was a former tech executive who had raised capital to introduce artificial…

Can Labor Activists Be Style Icons?

Getty Images; Sanders: Damian Dovarganes/AP Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. John Elward drives a UPS truck and has been a Teamster for 18 years. He’s also a burgeoning fashion influencer of sorts. On his Twitter account @UnionDrip, Elward has been chronicling the style highlights of labor…

The Business of Making ‘Pleasure’

When Ninja Thyberg, the screenwriter and director of the porn industry drama “Pleasure,” was a teenager, everything about pornography ticked her off. “Women were these sex dolls used to satisfy men,” she told me, sitting beside her star, Sofia Kappel, in an apartment in Chinatown in Manhattan. In the early 2000s, in her native Sweden,…