It Bags were over in 2008, or so declared trend pieces in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. In the face of the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, the very notion of those symbols of turn-of-the-century conspicuous consumption—the Fendi Baguettes, the Chloé Paddingtons, the Dior Saddles, and many others that cost…
Christopher Horne Lori Harvey isn’t a regular model, she’s a cool model. Case in point: the budding entrepreneur eats French toast while getting glammed up for a fashion show. “I will always make time for a quick bite before getting dressed,” she says. It’s a refreshing thing to hear during New York Fashion Week, when…
“New York Woman” — three small words that tell a big story. A story I hoped to embody, but might never get the chance. The words were embroidered on a T-shirt I saw at Out of the Closet, the secondhand store in the Boerum Hill neighborhood in Brooklyn last week but opted not to buy…
When April Lavalle and Alex Boniello started planning their upcoming October wedding, one of the first things they decided on was the dress code. Rather than request their guests don more traditional formal or black-tie clothing, the couple opted for the less common, and purposefully vague, “cocktail creative.” They communicated their unusual option to their…
If a single garment has inscribed itself on fashion’s collective memory, it may well be Jean Seberg’s jauntily striped Breton sweater, worn for her role as Patricia in the film “Breathless.” A boyish badge of disaffection, the look was so often reproduced that, as the designer Scott Sternberg observed, “it’s become its own cottage industry.” But the impact of that sweater, and of that 1960…
The New York Times is interested in sharing pictures of readers’s nontraditional wedding attire. Did you attend (or have) a wedding where the dress code called for “creative cocktail” or “desert chic?” We’d love to see your outfit. Around 2.5 million weddings are expected to take place this year, and many of them had been…
At first, all you see is the swish of an iridescent tale and a flash of red hair. She glides gracefully through an underwater world of fish, coral, sea turtles and shipwrecks. The familiar twinkle of a Disney song settles in, and as she swims to the surface light, the princess is finally revealed. “She’s…
Melvin Sokolsky, a photographer who pushed boundaries by creating fantastical tableaux for fashion bibles like Harper’s Bazaar that seemed to defy both gravity and logic, died on Aug. 29 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 88. The death was confirmed by his son, Bing. Mr. Sokolsky was an untrained photographer who grew…
Rommy Hunt Revson was renting a house in Southampton, N.Y., in 1986, stressed from her recent divorce from a Revlon heir, John Revson, when she conceived of a hair band to hold a ponytail without damaging the hair. “I don’t know why, but I became somewhat determined to figure out an invention that used fabric…
Jeremy Moeller Everything old is new again. More specifically, the best 2000s trends. Slip skirts, platform shoes, and baguette bags (which are currently taking over the NYFW spring/summer 2023 runways) have all been among the iconic era’s revival, with designers reimagining them for here and now. If you’ve been paying any attention to celebrity street…