Miu Miu’s spring 2022 runway show helped set the agenda for a new wave of preppy style, from ribcage-grazing cropped tennis sweaters to pleated micro-mini skirts that would eventually appear in dozens of fashion editorials. The collection’s must-have factor extended all the way to the footwear. Models walked down this runway in distressed but also…
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Tina Barney was home alone in Watch Hill, R.I., during 2020 and needed a Covid quarantine project. While many were cleaning their closets, the acclaimed photographer exhumed about 1,000 35-millimeter negatives shot in the late 1970s and early ’80s, when she was learning the basics of her craft at the Sun Valley Center for the…
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While it’s tempting to spend the weekend clad in sweatsuits, making brief outings to and from the deli for requisite sustenance, lazy weekend dressing is on its way out. The act of getting dressed up for a weekend of nothing or everything is coming back full force, and Aritzia is here to lead the charge.…
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MILAN — The Prada show invitation did not arrive alone. It came with a delicate calla lily, rolled out of starched white cotton and ready to be pinned to a lapel. Also a door stopper of a 550-page monograph titled “Recycling Beauty” and chronicling the current exhibition at the Fondazione Prada: an examination of the…
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Many people are looking for the biggest home they can afford. But not Michael Ingram Jones. When he began looking to return to New York from San Francisco, size was a secondary concern, because he considered the city to be his larger living room. More important, by far, was the neighborhood where he wanted to…
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One recent Saturday morning at Steps on Broadway, a rehearsal studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, ballet dancers pirouetted to recordings of classical piano music while an instructor guided them. Some of the dancers were retired pros practicing at the barre. Others were weekend warriors indulging “Swan Lake” fantasies while getting in some…
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It has been 12 months since Russia began a brutal invasion of Ukraine, forcing millions to flee the country and devastating the local economy, including the budding Kyiv fashion scene. The war is the reason that Ukraine Fashion Week came to London this season, with three designers — Ivan Frolov, Ksenia Schnaider and Julie Paskal…
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In the weeks leading up to my February trip to snowy Vail, I was told by several people — promised, really — that I would “feel the magic” of the 50th anniversary gathering of the National Brotherhood of Skiers before I even arrived in Colorado. “There’s a palpable excitement in the air,” said Mackenzie Phillips,…
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