The fashion industry let out a collective gasp this morning in response to two words flooding social media timelines: Pheobe Philo. After a three-year hiatus—following her departure from Celine in 2017—Philo is returning to fashion. The former creative director of Celine and Chloe is branching out to launch her own namesake label with support from…
Listen? Do you hear that? It is the intake of breath after thousands of women’s fashion prayers are finally answered. Phoebe Philo, the patron saint of dressing for the female gaze, the designer whose work convinced Joan Didion to pose for an ad and turned her customers into groupies, is returning to business. On her…
Irvington, N.Y. — Roughly two hours after the start of the Pyer Moss Couture 1 show was delayed by lightning, thunder and rains of biblical dimensions, the designer Kerby Jean-Raymond darted onto the lawn of the white stucco mansion where the event was staged and passed out blunts. Miraculously, if only briefly, the torrent let…
Villa Lewaro, the Palladian estate built in Irvington, N.Y., by Madam C.J. Walker, a child of slaves who became a beauty mogul and the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, is pretty far, geographically speaking, from Paris — about 3,605 miles. But that’s where the couture shows came to a close, with a…
Rich y yo tuvimos más rupturas después de eso. Empecé a querer algo más, pero nuestras vidas eran incompatibles, así que terminamos y seguimos siendo amigos. Luego acepté un trabajo a 112 kilómetros de distancia, así que me pareció bien que tuviéramos sexo “solo una vez más” antes de que me mudara peroluego resultó que…
A Pyer Moss runway show always comes with a few guarantees: an extravagant display and celebration of Blackness, a soundtrack that’ll keep your Shazam app running over time, and a Black history lesson taught through every texture, fabric, and cut that waltz down the runway. But on Thursday, July 8, the day Pyer Moss designer…
PARIS — The Cannes Film Festival is in starlet red-carpet swing; the billionaires are back in Sun Valley; and in Paris — “It’s like a school reunion, no?” said Carine Roitfeld, the French fashion editor, flicking her veil of hair from her black-lined eyes and glancing around the Dior show on Monday as the first…
“The fact that we’re surrounded by a global layer that’s there at all times,” Mr. Tehranian said, referring to the Ethereum blockchain, “where there’s no central party that determines whether or not something is available or not?” That, he said, is the antidote to the digital world we already live in — one that he…
Every day during lockdown Samantha Barry, the editor of Glamour Magazine,walked or ran along the West Side Highway in New York City. “I would go from Chelsea to the Statue of Liberty,” she said. “This was my moment of sanity every day.” This was the longest she had ever spent in New York City without…
Katherine Walton, the owner of Walton Cake Boutique in Sydney, Australia, has been sharing her creations on Instagram since 2018 but in the early months of the pandemic she noticed a new baking movement rising online — a surge in a specific type of online baking collaboration called “collabs.” “I saw that more and more…