The ultimate honor during awards season is to take home a statue. But the glut of ceremonies and related events between January and March has long offered celebrities another way to distinguish themselves: by their clothing choices. For A-listers, red carpets are as much a venue for self expression as they are an arena for…
Wow, that’s one way to hip check someone, I thought, when the first look of the Alaïa show appeared. The designer Pieter Mulier had dropped the waistbands of his skirts below the belly button and then added a sort of inflatable doughnut inside, so the result resembled a cross between a futuristic pannier and a…
On the Verge showcases emerging talent from the worlds of fashion, food, music, art and design. The British designer Harry Pontefract’s clothing often starts with a very specific obsession. Last year, for example, his fixation with vintage faux fruit led him on a six-month search for plastic grapes, which he incorporated into his latest collection…
If you need to find the musician Harrison Patrick Smith in any room that he’s in, just look for the guy in the skinny black suit. What the pinstripes are to the Yankees, a shrunken, chauffeur driver’s black suit is for Mr. Smith, 28, who performs as the Dare. And so, on Wednesday evening in…
At least a quarter of an hour before the Givenchy show was to begin, the white-walled salons of the brand’s headquarters on Avenue George V began to fill up with guests. To understand why that is significant, consider the fact that in the skewed reality of fashion, a show is considered to have started on…
Hang around the fashion industry for all of, oh, five minutes, and you’ll start to hear the term “classics with a twist.” Designers say it, writers use it, marketing execs cite it. What they mean, typically, is something familiar, bent just enough to feel fresh — stylistically, and, of course, commercially. Is it trite? Certainly….
It’s not often that fashion show notes, the word salads that purport to explain the idea behind a collection but often seem like a pointless justification, offer a gut punch of surprise. But that’s what happened after the Comme des Garçons show, when Rei Kawakubo issued her usual explanatory aphorism. “Recently we feel that big…
“The holidays are meant to be a special time when you bring out your Christmas sweater — and why not your special watch?” asked Summer Anne Lee, a fashion historian and adjunct instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. “Seasonal watches are not over-the-top like the ugly Christmas sweaters,” she said. “But…
Want to go viral on TikTok right now? Grab some pink ribbon and a random object. A roll of toilet paper, a houseplant, or a kosher dill spear will do. Tie it up in a bow and film it. Post the video online, and voilà. In recent weeks, bows in all the wrong places have…
