She’s Come Undone (on Purpose)

If you see a young person strolling down the street, pants undone, it’s probably not an “examine your zipper” situation. Once the provenance of your uncle after Thanksgiving dinner or a practical adaptation to a pregnant belly, sporting unbuttoned jeans has become a fashion statement. Katie Pettit, 20, a model from Orlando, Fla., was visiting…

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Willy Chavarria Takes It to Church

Fashion is no place for people without a stomach for contradiction. Consider the gorgeous, if occasionally lugubrious, Willy Chavarria show on Tuesday in Manhattan at Marble Collegiate Church, home pulpit of President Richard M. Nixon’s favorite clergyman, Norman Vincent Peale, the self-help pundit who wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking.” Exalting and hokey, exhortatory as…

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