Name: Bianca Saunders Age: 28 Hometown: London Currently Lives: In her family’s house in South London, with her parents and four of her six siblings. Claim to Fame: Ms. Saunders is a rising British men’s wear designer who collaborated with Gucci on a short film and won this year’s French Andam fashion prize. Her namesake…
The annual festival celebrated 10 years of drag, queerness and artistry this month, but some local queens want more. Bushwig, the end-of-summer drag weekend extravaganza held each year in New York, was born of a simple desire. It was 2012, and the drag queens Horrorchata, 36, and Merrie Cherry, 38, were day drinking with their…
MILAN — Forget the summer of love; welcome to the season of sex. It has been bubbling up ever since New York Fashion Week began (ever since the naked summer, really). But on Friday it moved to the center of the catwalk conversation. When Versace and Prada — the id and the ego of the…
Britney Spears’s father and the security firm he hired to protect her ran an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored her communications and secretly captured audio recordings from her bedroom, including her interactions and conversations with her boyfriend and children, according to a former employee of the security firm. Alex Vlasov, the employee, supported his claims…
At this point, every new jeans trend looks awful to me. I realize that I’ve entered the “classics” phase of my life and tired of chasing “the latest.” Now that I need a new pair of jeans, what style would you suggest that is the most enduring but won’t make me look frumpy? — Jackie,…
No More Mr. Fix I.T. I work at an architecture firm of about 60 employees. We have fully transitioned to producing construction and design-related documents digitally. Our work depends on this digital production, which requires the near constant maintenance of software, hardware, program licensing and servers. But the firm does not have a staff member…
September marks the dawn of fall and the urge to reinvent one’s wardrobe. Plush sweaters, trim coats, and boots of all kinds are seasonal pillars worthy of a refresh. But how to anchor it all with sharp day-to-day sophistication? You can’t go wrong with a poised handbag like the Coach Rogue. It’s one of executive…
Courtesy of the designers; Crutchley: Eamonn McCormack/BFC; Maximilian: Chris Yates Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. By the looks of the recently concluded London Fashion Week, designers spent their lockdown downtime either delving deep into fashion history or craving the lights and EDM drops of clubland. While…
It was not really a secret that Mr. Buckley had been sick, on and off, for a long time. That friends managed to be surprised by his death, despite abundant evidence of its inevitability, was largely because of Mr. Buckley’s quiet way of getting on with it. Making tough things look easy was and is…
In 2014, Andrea Clevenger, who appeared on the TLC show “Cheer Perfection” with her young daughter, went to prison after pleading guilty to one count of first-degree sexual assault and engaging a child in sexually explicit conduct; the victim was a 13-year-old boy. She was released in 2017 and is now on parole. But cultural…