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The New Romantic: Lorenzo Serafini on Red Carpet Dressing, Fashion Burnout,...
Since making his Philosophy runway debut for Fall 2015, Lorenzo Serafini has wasted no time in setting a new tenor for the brand. Gone is the certain hardness of predecessor Natalie Ratabesi’s sheaths...
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Take It From This Saint Laurent Model: Nobody Is Too Cool for a Sweater-Vest
While the sweater-vest may be synonymous with all things dorky, dweeby, and other words most often applied to Steve Urkel and uptight dads, it’s in the midst of a renaissance. From a serious 2015...
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Four African-Designed Labels Get Their Big Break at Pitti Uomo
Four African-designed labels were handed the opportunity to present their collections on the runway at the Pitti menswear fair in Florence today. And, as part of the same show, three asylum seekers...
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Jerry Hall Is More Than Rupert Murdoch’s New Fiancée: See Her Best Moments in...
Fashion has its share of characters, but few can compete with Jerry Hall. Bold, brash, and somehow still uncompromisingly elegant, Hall was a supermodel long before the term entered the popular...
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Annie Leibovitz’s New Exhibit Is a Life-Affirming Celebration of Womanhood
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station is a spare, redbrick ex-industrial utility space, not one of the glossy, high-end galleries that populate the West End of London. At first, it seemed odd that a...
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Adidas Originals and White Mountaineering Team Up at Pitti Uomo
Asked how he hoped Adidas Originals’s latest collaborative collection should appear to the eye on first sight, the company’s vice president of global design, Nic Galway, said, “Familiar but new.”...
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These Are the Iconic Wardrobe Pieces You Need for Spring
There’s nothing quite like a great vintage score, stumbling on a gem in a flea market bin, maybe the perfect Perfecto sandwiched between bad polyblend dresses. Still, for those of us feeling stretched...
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Ring In the Chinese New Year in Prada! The New Monkey-Mania Capsule Collection
The Chinese New Year is just a few weeks away, and while we await February 8th’s arrival of dumpling delicacies and dancing dragons in the street, we’re kicking off the festivities early with Prada’s...
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“Every Designer Is Looking for Opportunities to Be Free”: Marco de Vincenzo...
There is a lot of hand-wringing rhetoric around today about the artistic pressures designers face to satisfy the ever-faster seasonal demands of fashion. Personally, I’m cynical about that—because in...
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2016 Is Going to Be a Big Year for Rock ’n’ Roll: Are Your T-Shirts Up to Snuff?
It’s a new year, with new beginnings. And there’s much to look forward to in 2016 already: time with family and friends; personal growth and reflection; the release of Fuller House on Netflix; and,...
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Pre-Fall Is the Model Casting Gift That Keeps On Giving
It may roll on interminably, without an end date in sight, but when it comes to noteworthy new models, Pre-Fall is the gift that keeps on giving. With each new lookbook, brands introduce their...
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9 Retellings of Classic Fairy Tales in Glorious Fashion in Vogue
Fashion is storytelling on a personal scale. We create personas and “read” people, in part, by what they are wearing, so essentially a dress is never just a dress. And that’s doubly true when a frock...
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Derek Zoolander Lands His First Vogue Cover Alongside Zoolander 2 Costar...
7 View slideshow Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, February 2016 He’s back! Ben Stiller, a.k.a. Derek Zoolander, and femme fatale Penélope Cruz lead a gang of fashion and Hollywood royalty in a...
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The Ultimate Zoolander Walk-Off Challenge! Can You Name the Fashion...
The male model equivalent of the duel, as Zoolander taught us, is the walk-off. In the film, the late, great David Bowie, who officiated, explains the rules: “First model walks, second model...
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Adriana Lima, Donna Karan, and Kenneth Cole Celebrate With a Garage Party for...
Kenneth Cole had a party in his garage last night. Well, not his personal garage, but, rather, the Garage event space adjacent to Kenneth Cole Productions headquarters on 11th Avenue. A stone’s throw...
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7 Vegan Leather Bags That Are Even Chicer Than the Real Thing
Would Susan B. Anthony, that iconic fighter for women’s rights, carry her position papers in a shiny calfskin briefcase? Would Mary Shelley, who not only reputedly eschewed meat but had her main man...
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You Can Still Look Cute When It’s Cold (And Yes, a Chanel Bag Helps)
Maintaining a sense of chic while in the midst of a deep freeze requires some ingenuity. It’s easy to forgo style in favor of bundling up when all you really want to do is curl up under the covers—or...
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20 Sleek Takes on Fashion’s Most Iconic Suit
Of any borrowed-from-the-boys staple, it’s tough to imagine one that has left so weighty a mark on the runways (and everywhere else) as Le Smoking. Since its 1968 debut, Yves Saint Laurent’s sprucely...
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A$AP Rocky Talks ’90s Hip-Hop Style and His New Guess Collaboration
Don’t ask A$AP Rocky about his style rules or his favorite fashion items. “I’d rather not say because you know what would happen,” he says, smirking. A preliminary Google search reveals the outcome:...
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Gigi Who? 2016’s Biggest Campaign Stars Are Celebrities With Niche Appeal
Although the ultimate purpose of all fashion advertising is to sell clothes, brands use their seasonal campaigns to do more than purely push product. When done right, an ad can convey the essence of a...
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