Advertisement Sasha Velour curated a freewheeling drag spectacular for the New York label, with queens, screams and Christina Aguilera. Image Christina Aguilera performed, here with Sasha Velour, at the Opening Ceremony show at New York Fashion Week. CreditCreditRebecca Smeyne for The New York Times Sept. 10, 2018 “In a fashion show, you see clothes,” said…
Advertisement Off the runway Behind and ahead of the scenes at Sies Marjan, Rodarte, Opening Ceremony and more. Image Rodarte, spring 2019.CreditCreditStefania Curto for The New York Times Sept. 10, 2018 The fourth day of fashion week brought more outdoor shows, but unforgiving rain turned the front row into the splash zone. The soggy weather…
In lieu of a traditional runway, Opening Ceremony hired the drag personality Sasha Velour, center, to stage a gender-bending show with Christina Aguilera on Sunday. Ms. Aguilera greeted the brand’s founders, from left, Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, after the show at Le Poussin Rouge. “She’s so cool,” Mr. Leon said. “We have drag performers…
T and the casting director Arianna Pradarelli round up the most intriguing fresh faces — some making their runway debuts during the spring 2019 shows, others a few seasons in. Image Fatou Jobe 24, United States Born in the Bronx and raised in Gambia, Jobe was discovered by modeling scouts while taking part in a…
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Winning back lapsed customers is easier said than done, and after a year of major shifts within the company—creative director Jenna Lyons left last August, expanded sizes were announced in July—J. Crew is rolling out an ambitious plan to re-engage its audience. Just last week, the Meghan Markle-approved brand joined forces with Amazon for an…
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Getty ImagesNicholas Hunt This has been the most dramatic week in fashion since the 2014 Met Gala party, when Solange drop kicked Jay-Z in his lemonade. At Harper’s Bazaar’s now infamous ICONS party, the Barbs and the Carbs got into a scuffle that led to security escorting Cardi B out of the event, shoeless and…