Enter the World of Cecilie Bahnsen

A Cecilie Bahnsen dress is impossible to miss. Romantic, voluminous, and every bit as dreamy as a fairy tale, the Danish designer’s unique creations are works of art that can be worn for each and every occasion. And at Paris Fashion Week, inside an airy whitewashed gallery nestled in the city’s bustling Marais district, girls…

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Start Your Engines: Introducing This Season’s Moto-Inspired Looks

On Sardine: Jacket, leggings, $1,600, metal mask, $2,900, necklace, $850, pumps, $1,460, Gucci.Brigitte Niedermair On Cook: Bodysuit, boots, $995, JW Anderson.Brigitte Niedermair On Cook, top row: Jacket, $3,840, dress, $980, Dion Lee. Mules, Trussardi. On Sardine: Top, $650, pants, $1.090, Dion Lee. Pumps, Annakiki.Brigitte Niedermair On Cook: Coat, bodysuit, $1,995, jumpsuit, $2,595, gloves, $645, boots,…

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Let Us Now All Praise Wearability

PARIS — Like many people, Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton women’s wear, started really traveling again last year — for work, for fun — after being mostly housebound during Covid lockdowns. And wherever he went, he and his team or he and his friends, would shop. They were trying to answer what…

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The Etymology of Food Words

Used judiciously, the snappy tidbits of food etymology in “Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day,” a new book by the medieval scholar Judith Tschann, could make you a hit at dinner parties. Say someone shows up in a seersucker suit. You could inform her that the British took the word seersucker from the Hindi sirsakar,…

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