A Fashionable Start to the Lunar New Year

“It feels like my wedding,” said the designer Phillip Lim on Tuesday night, as he greeted about 40 guests to a highly art-directed, made-for-Instagram dinner celebrating the Lunar New Year. The dinner was held at a new three-story showroom for Genesis, the luxury Korean automaker, in Manhattan’s meatpacking district. All guests were sent a Covid-19…

Over Spilled Champagne, a Spark

Kelly Frye was attending a holiday party in London on Dec. 5, 2019, when she saw the host accidentally spill a glass of champagne on Nick Campbell. “I jokingly went to brush off the champagne when he turned around and asked if I wanted to get another drink,” said Ms. Frye, who was living in…

Mom Saw What They Did Not

Mario Rodriguez Graniel and Guy Rejwan were visiting Florence, Italy, in November 2019 when Mr. Graniel said that he felt “the time was right to discuss any special engagement plans for the near future” with Mr. Rejwan, whom Mr. Graniel had been dating for three years. “In gay relationships, there’s really not an understanding of…

Couture Took Us To Infinity and Beyond

Courtesy of the designers; Getty Images; Fendi: Pascal Le Segretain; Valli: YANNIS VLAMOS Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. The worlds of sci-fi and couture might not, initially, seem to have much overlap. Except, of course, for the fact that both are rarefied realms with obsessive devotees…

Could Detroit Become the Next Fashion City?

“I think our landlord is like, ‘What are you guys doing?’” said Cassidy Tucker, sitting alongside her sister Kelsey on a Zoom call from their Detroit studio last week. Surrounding them was a pileup of 50 pieces of original artwork, with several 8-foot-by-4-foot mural-like sculptures meant to approximate the pages of a giant storybook. The…