Being a business owner is hard, and being a Black business owner presents an entirely different set of challenges. The systemic hurdles that exist to hold back the Black community from entrepreneurship contribute to the gaping economic disparities that exist in today’s society. Despite these hardships, many succeed as self-made moguls. Emma Grede is one…
Have you ever bought a baguette and thought, “this would make the perfect beanie”? Nicole McLaughlin certainly has. The Brooklyn-based artist and designer began her career by taking items across all disciplines, regardless of wearability, and turning them into covetable fashion items. Think: Puma gloves sewn into a motocross jacket, a croissant bra (a “brassant,”…
Lady Gaga is a walking runway show; every time she steps out in 8-inch platform boots for a casual NYC strut, Little Monsters at home lose their collective minds. Even years after her infamous meat dress made her the object of scorn and adoration in equal measure, she’s still finding new and innovative ways to…
We already know how Billie Eilish feels about our opinions on her red carpet looks. But just in case she sees this one: Billie, I loved it. I really did. This bizarre, bat-like satin black gown at the Grammys? Thrilling. Amy SussmanGetty Images Fresh off winning an Oscar for her song “No Time To Die”…
Mireya AciertoGetty Images Patrick Demarchelier, the photographer whose style helped defined the easy glamour of the 1990s, and whose career came to an end amid #MeToo allegations of sexual assault, died on Thursday at age 78. His family announced the photographer’s death on his Instagram page; the cause was not immediately known. Demarchelier, who was…
Press Conference: Reed Young; Other images: Getty Images Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Models are not high on the list of professions that garner public sympathy. YouTube is full of supercuts of them falling on the runway. Eyerolls greet their public complaints. As Sara Ziff, founder…
As cofounder and CEO of Good American and founding partner of Skims, Emma Grede is willing to do a lot for the Kardashian-powered brands. Uproot her family from London to L.A.? Yes. Obsess over the fit of a garment until it’s perfect? Absolutely. Hop on Zoom for this interview, minutes after someone in her household…
The pharmaceutical industry opposed the drug price regulations in the social spending and climate legislation, but it has not vocally opposed the insulin bill. While the bill would lower costs for many individual patients who take insulin, it would do nothing to reduce the prices paid to the companies that make it. Instead, insurance companies…
“I have secret boobs. I do—32Cs. It’s just I have such clavicle issues, I don’t like them on show.” This was something Alexa Chung said in a 2011 interview with British Vogue that not only stuck with me throughout my twenties, but confirmed in some small way that how I was dressing at the time…
There are the secrets you keep and there are rare secrets you share with a personal few. Amazon’s outlet store full of designer finds fits the bill to be the latter. Tucked away in the depths of everyone’s favorite online retailer is page after page of everything you need to refresh your wardrobe. Whether that…