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Why Issey Miyake Was Steve Jobs’s Favorite Designer
Little wonder, really, that Issey Miyake was Steve Jobs’s favorite designer. The man behind Mr. Jobs’s personal uniform of black mock turtlenecks, who died on Aug. 5 at age 84, was a pioneer in all sorts of ways — the first foreign designer to show at Paris Fashion Week (in April 1974), among the first […]
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Victoria’s Secret and What’s Sexy Now
When Victoria’s Secret announced, back in August 2021, that it was rebranding after years of falling sales and falling cultural credibility — that it would become a champion of female empowerment, replacing its bevy of supermodel angels with the VS Collective, ten women of great accomplishment as well as varying ages and body types — […]
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Much Gilt, Little Guilt
When “Gilded Glamour,” the dress code of the 2022 Met Gala, was announced, it seemed to be either a recipe for extravagant disaster or irony. After all, the current era has often been compared to the late 19th-century Gilded Age, that period between 1870 and 1900 when extreme wealth was concentrated in the hands of […]
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Met Gala 2022 Guide: Gilded Glamour Dress Code, Theme and More
First things first: What is the Met Gala? Officially, it’s the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, a black-tie extravaganza held the first Monday in May to raise money for the Costume Institute. Unofficially, it’s “the party of the year,” “the Oscars of the East Coast” and “an A.T.M. for the Met” (the last […]
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A Pink Parade at the End of the World
Earlier this year, while planning her 40th birthday party, Ms. Cohen decided she wanted “iconic New York.” So she booked the grand ballroom of the Plaza Hotel. “I stepped into, like, my dream brain,” Ms. Cohen said. By which she meant that her February party ended up having burlesque dancers, a confetti drop, musicians on […]
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‘Cleopatra’ May Be 60, but the Jewelry Never Gets Old
Sixty years ago this summer, production finally wrapped on “Cleopatra,” a movie more famous for a scandalous love affair offscreen than the love story from antiquity that was all but lost in the nearly four-hour running time. While the real Cleopatra may have had that famous asp for an accessory, Elizabeth Taylor as the Egyptian […]
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A New Generation Changes the Oscar Red Carpet Rules
It’s hard to remember now, through the mist of time, but there was a moment, pre-Covid, when a movement was afoot in Hollywood to #askhermore on the red carpet (him too). To try to change what was looking, literally, like a paid-for marketing opportunity for fashion, and the celebs that wore it, into a storytelling […]
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Brief Encounters With a Micro Miniskirt
The Miu Miu skirt is so short that it seems to have no end. For the last two weeks, it has made nearly daily appearances: on the covers of magazines, on the bodies of celebrities and influencers, and as the subject of articles about its reach. The styling is part of that reach. Usually the […]
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Rihanna Is Pregnant. Here’s Why the Photo Shoot Is Next-Level.
The art form known as the “celebrity pregnancy photo shoot” has a new winning entry. Rihanna and ASAP Rocky have announced their first child with the release of a street shot by Miles Diggs, a.k.a., Diggzy, a.k.a., the 20-something photographer named by Vogue as “fashion’s favorite paparazzi.” The series of pictures, posted on Instagram and […]
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