Q. Why do some fabrics become transparent when wet? A. Cloth, like paper, is made up of discrete strands of fiber with air between them. Light hitting the dry material is somewhat scattered within it, but a good share is reflected to the eye. This renders the material visible. Compared with the strands in the…
My mother died after a two-year battle with cancer. Her palliative care nurse (for much of that time) helped me wash and dress her body, and signed her death certificate. Now, my father has revealed that he began a sexual relationship with the nurse shortly after my mother died. I feel the nurse betrayed her…
Advertisement Fashion Review Image Rick Owens, spring 2019.CreditCreditValerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times Sept. 28, 2018 PARIS — There’s no good way to write about fashion in the wake of the scorched-earth event that took place Thursday in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. No respectable segues into focusing on clothes. No agreed-on…
With awards season approaching, stylists are at fashion weeks, scoping out looks for their clients, readying them to be at their best for months of parading down scads of red carpets. Harvey Weinstein may be banished, but the awards campaign machine he helped create grinds on. Now, a year into #MeToo, and after the emboldened…
I didn’t meet my girlfriend, Jessica, until 12 years after our daughter, Alice, was born. Let me explain. Nearly 25 years ago, I returned from a year of teaching English abroad, moved in with my mother and, lacking prospects, began driving a cab. One day I saw a newspaper ad seeking healthy men, 18 to…
Models, cool girls and Victoria’s Secret Angels Irina Shayk and Stella Maxwell can add “handbag designer” to their resumes. In addition to serving as the faces of The Kooples’ fall 2018 campaign, Shayk and Maxwell were enlisted by the French brand to create two new handbags that reflect their personal style. Advertisement – Continue Reading…
On January 28, 2001, a rising Tunisian-Italian designer named Hedi Slimane showed his first collection for Dior Homme. Staged at the Galerie de Botanique in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, the event effectively rebranded the fashion houses’s men’s line, and caused a seismic shift in the typically staid world of men’s fashion. At a…
PARIS — On Tuesday night the 19th-century Hôtel de Pontalba on Rue du Faubourg St.-Honoré, the residence of the United States ambassador to France, was aglow with chatter and Champagne, slices of lobster and dabs of foie gras. Jamie D. McCourt was hosting a party in celebration of a new special relationship: that of Google…
PARIS — Anouk Viale did not like the plungers protruding from her breasts. Yes, she was supposed to be a Carmen Miranda version of a charwoman, with a blue plastic bucket filled with sponges, toilet scrubbers and yellow rubber gloves held tightly onto her head by a durag. And, yes, she was wearing a lime…
PARIS — Anyone curious about where Roger Vivier, the well-known French shoe brand, may be headed in the hands of its new designer, Gherardo Felloni, might want to check out the creative director’s own flair for accessorizing. Not necessarily the shoes. Necklaces are his obsession. Over the past 15 years or so, ever since he…