Matty Bovan Makes Dog Cones for Fashion Fiends

Stuart Wilson/BFCGetty Images Like hurt puppies and drunk Tinder swipers, fashion needs some self-protection right now. That feels especially true in London, where Brexit is more on-again-off-again than a Bachelor in Paradise romance, and environmental protests are hardcore, sincere, and—in the face of the climate crisis—impossible to discount. Tristan Fewings/BFCGetty Images Into the storm rides…

Kim Gordon’s Other Life

LOS ANGELES — Kim Gordon is synonymous with New York. It was in New York that Ms. Gordon, helped found Sonic Youth, probably the most influential New York art-rock band since the Velvet Underground. It was in New York that Ms. Gordon became a fashion influencer, blending 1980s thrift store campiness with 1960s Anita Pallenberg…

Dior Finally Says No to Sauvage

ImageA frame from the Christian Dior “We Are the Land” fragrance film. A stubbled white loner in a serape, a deep ocean blue shirt and multiple beaded chains and bracelets stares moodily at desert landscape lit by the blood reds of sunset. A Native American in classic regalia dances atop a mesa. A girl in…

Honoring 9/11 Victims

Cantor Fitzgerald, a firm where many who died in the 9/11 attacks worked, and its affiliate, BGC Partners, held its annual charity day on Sept. 11. Celebrities assisted traders on the phone, with the day’s proceeds going to charity. And the 9/11 Memorial & Museum held a benefit dinner on Sept. 4 at Cipriani Wall…

Anna Kendrick is Everything You Want Her to Be

For a certain type of woman—the kind whose first concert was an Oklahoma! sing-along instead of Hilary Duff—there’s no better celebrity than Anna Kendrick. A Broadway kid turned movie star, she’s done blockbusters (Pitch Perfect, Twilight), indies (Camp, Drinking Buddies), and a best-selling book (“Scrappy Little Nobody”) about her rise to the top. Kendrick is…

Secrets of ‘Downton Abbey’ Style

LONDON — One of the most feted designers here this week — someone whose work has been admired by the Duchess of Cambridge — will not, actually, participate in London Fashion Week. Yet it is possible the slinky 1920s gowns, cloche hats and tiaras created or sourced by Anna Mary Scott Robbins, the costume designer…