Cinematic is the best way to describe Valentino’s haute couture collection for the Fall 2020 season. This morning, via livestream, the Italian label’s creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, took full advantage of the video format that has become part and parcel in the fashion industry to bring viewers into a realm of fantasy. The mini film,…
The relationship between photographer and subject has been fraught since long before Susan Sontag characterized it as part of the “shady commerce between art and truth” in her 1977 collection of essays On Photography. Photographers, after all, make the eye of the beholder literal, placing the subject consistently at their mercy to be idealized, stripped…
In decades of writing about gardening, I have covered outbreaks and subsequent attempts at control of many invasive pests, from the hemlock woolly adelgid to the emerald ash borer. But there’s one I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since I learned of it in 2013. Coming soon to a backyard or a forest…
This article is part of a series exploring how the Americans With Disabilities Act has shaped modern life for people with disabilities. Listen to This Article Audio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Ask any expectant couple what they hope…
At the end of February, just as the coronavirus was beginning to cast its pall over Europe, an elite crowd that included the likes of Anna Wintour, Jeff Bezos and Seth Meyers gathered in the gilded 19th-century halls of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris to watch Diane von Furstenberg be awarded…
Dear Tripped Up, I’m booked on a Cunard Line trans-Atlantic cruise in May 2021. The reservation was made using credit from an April sailing that was canceled due to Covid-19. Because I canceled my reservation a week before Cunard itself canceled the sailing, I was not given the opportunity to get a refund. But I…
Jide Zeitlin, the chief executive of Tapestry and one of only four Black chief executives in the Fortune 500, resigned on Tuesday and later said the unexpected move, less than a year into his tenure, was related to a past relationship. The company’s board had been made aware of a misconduct allegation involving Mr. Zeitlin…
Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. I have always been supremely jealous of people who slumber like the proverbial log. I’ve never been able to, but especially not now. Not when my brain is an arid desert and my dreams are peopled with a Robert Altman-sized…
Attention shoppers: Everlane is having a huge summer sale, where you can save up to 40 percent on a bunch of clothes and accessories. While Everlane regularly has discounts in its “Choose What You Pay” section, it’s rare to find already-marked down deals this good. Wearing—let alone—buying new clothes seems daunting. (I mean, I too…
The 2020 CFDA Fashion Awards are moving ahead, but with a few changes. Earlier this year, the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced that it had postponed the in-person ceremony (dubbed by industry insiders as “fashion prom”) as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The new date is September 14, when winners of the…