There was theater at Dior on Day 1 of Paris Fashion Week. Powerful glamour at Alaïa. But for real-life dressing drama, nothing compared to the fashion show that took place in front of the luminous glass pyramid of the Louvre on the opening evening of the collections, as guests arrived for the museum’s gala Grand…
It has been worn by A-list musicians, sports stars and artists, timed a World Cup soccer final and appeared on the Olympic podium. Love it or loathe it, there is no denying the impact that Hublot’s Big Bang has had on watchmaking and popular culture since its introduction 20 years ago. Released in 2005, the…
Forget white suffragist pantsuits, the political uniform of the female Trump opposition during the president’s first term. On Tuesday night during President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, about three dozen members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus wore bright hues of pink. Amid the sea of dark suits in the House chamber, all…
On the second floor of a 19th-century villa near the Bois de Boulogne, overlooking a garden housing a child’s trampoline and various plastic scooters, there is a room filled with blouses. Hundreds of blouses. Lace blouses from the Victorian era and big-shouldered blouses from the 1980s. Blouses in paisley and leopard print. Blouses with familiar…
Attention all martini-swilling lounge lizards with a soulful side who have found themselves of late wandering, lost in a forest of athleisure and streetwear: You are about to be found. On Wednesday night in Paris, against a backdrop of gray silk and vodka, Haider Ackermann made his debut as creative director of Tom Ford and…
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…