It is as big a shift as when ready-to-wear merged with made-to-measure in the 1960s and ’70s. And yet, while the evolution has been taking place for a while, the “streetwear” designation lingers. As fashion week dawns, say many designers, it’s time to bury it. What does it even mean? “I’d like to have a…
Jerome Chazen, an original partner in the Liz Claiborne company, which helped reshape how career women dress, died on Sunday at his home in Upper Nyack, N.Y. He was 94. The death was confirmed by his son, David. Mr. Chazen was a driving force behind Liz Claiborne Inc. as it outfitted a generation of women…
Recent research may indicate that humans are more sensitive to body odor than our evolutionary ancestors were. Is this good news? It could be for Phillip Miner, a nightlife promoter who holds a party called “Pheromone” for armpit fetishists (the next will be held Feb. 10). Pent-up demand for nightlife — after so many months…
The look made waves at the Paris haute couture shows when Julia Fox sat, vaping, in the front row at Schiaparelli in an all-leather outfit, golden padlock bag and extreme black cat-eye makeup that covered her entire eyelids. There it was again at the Chanel couture show, where makeup artists painted smudgy black circles around…
The look made waves at the Paris haute couture shows when Julia Fox sat, vaping, in the front row at Schiaparelli in an all-leather outfit, golden padlock bag and extreme black cat-eye makeup that covered her entire eyelids. There it was again at the Chanel couture show, where makeup artists painted smudgy black circles around…
Elegance, Nino Cerruti once said, got on his nerves. It was the sort of remark you can afford to toss off when you are easily the most elegant man in the room. And Mr. Cerruti, who died last month at age 91, embodied that attribute, a quality seldom encountered yet unmistakable when you are in…
When the historian and journalist Carter G. Woodson proposed the first Negro History Week in 1926, he hardly imagined what would eventually become a monthlong celebration of Black history and culture across the nation. Today, every single state commemorates Black History Month in some fashion, acknowledging the trailblazers of the past, celebrating those making waves…
Read more about the 2022 wedding boom in our ongoing Year of the Wedding series. In January, Brittany Lo, the founder and chief executive of Beautini, a bridal beauty company in Manhattan, traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, for a friend’s wedding. Come March, Ms. Lo will be in Jersey City, N.J., attending another friend’s wedding. And…
Fine china — the delicate, sometimes fussy tableware long associated with wedding registries and your grandmother’s cabinet — has found a new, more relaxed place at the table. Whether a Herend soup dish adorned with a wild boar or a gilded Lenox dessert plate rimmed with a Greek key pattern, fans of using fine china,…
One day in 1989, Paul Sinclaire was directing a photo shoot in Los Angeles when he got a call from Grace Mirabella. After having been unceremoniously fired from her job at Vogue, where she was editor in chief from 1971 to 1988, Ms. Mirabella had a new magazine project in the works and found a…