For Skiers, a Winter of Discontent

“Is it just me, or do some of the lifties look older this season?” asked my husband as we rode a chairlift at Snowmass, in Colorado — our local resort — a couple of days after Christmas. I reminded him that during the holidays, the Aspen Skiing Company’s executive team comes out to Snowmass and…

Can Hugo Boss Actually Be Cool?

“You could hike a mountain in this,” Mr. Greider proclaimed, saying sales of suits for the brand recovered last summer, in tandem with scaled-back lockdown measures across the world. “People wanted to get dressed up and go to restaurants.” (The “suit of tomorrow” will arrive in stores in “late January.”) There are still some classic…

Requiem for Party Dresses Lost

PARIS — The last time the couture collections took place was the first time most of the fashion world, that traveling circus that reunites only during shows, had seen one another after more than a year of pandemic trauma. That was in July 2021, and the streets of Paris were afizz with excitement; air kisses…