The clothes are secondary. Almost everyone acknowledges this, including Ralph Lauren himself, who has long been vocal about not considering himself a fashion designer. “I never liked fashion,” he told The New York Times in 2021. “I like things that get better with age.” Mr. Lauren’s world building is the thing that has kept him…
Those teenagers have aged into a professional generation more reliant on texting. Ashlyn Shadden was a high schooler in the early 2000s when she got her first cellphone, a pink Nokia that she mostly used to text her boyfriend. Ms. Shadden, 34, who now runs a clothing boutique in St. Jo, Texas, said she had…
Why It Matters: Ms. Burton blazed a bright path after Mr. McQueen’s death When Mr. McQueen died by suicide at 40, many in the industry were worried that his brand could not move beyond the tragedy. Ms. Burton, then its head of women’s wear, had been working with Mr. McQueen since 1996, when she started…
At a cocktail party in Lower Manhattan on Friday to celebrate a new collection of clothing and accessories designed by the fashion photographer Steven Meisel for Zara, practically the only boldface name who didn’t show up was Steven Meisel. “I would have been surprised if he had come,” said Edward Enninful, the editor in chief…
On a recent Thursday morning, after ABC’s “Good Morning America” had finished its broadcast, Robin Rene Roberts and Amber Laign sat in the corner table of a restaurant a couple hundred feet away from the studio. They were giddy because their wedding day was two weeks away, and they were excited to share their love…
It’s a morning like any other on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At the crammed outdoor cafés, boozy brunch cocktails slosh onto the sidewalk, clutched by young women with nail art and crop tops who seem to be in a perpetual gossip download. As whispers of Timothée Chalamet sightings and Hinge ghosts creep down…
Today, Alexander McQueen announced the departure of its creative director, Sarah Burton. Lee McQueen founded his eponymous label in 1992, and Burton has been with the brand since 1996, when she joined him as an intern after graduating from famed London design school Central Saint Martins. She was one of McQueen’s closest and most trusted…
Not even torrential downpour could stop the fashion set from gathering at Spring Studios last night to see Sergio Hudson’s latest collection. On the heels of his first magazine cover, where the designer poses alongside longtime supporter Keke Palmer for Essence, Hudson is a star in his own right, not just someone who creates clothes…
It’s been a while since New York was the main character in any costume drama, a while since it starred as anything other than a problem: abandoned, messy, crime-ridden, economically challenged. But as New York Fashion Week began, the city’s designers were telling a different story. One about the city as a place of chaos,…
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