So What Does Rihanna’s First Fenty Collection Actually Look Like?
A host of editors got a sneak peek in Paris. So what if they had to wait awhile?
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CreditLuc Castel Courting the Ultrarich With Chateaus and Chefs
Luxury brands, intent on keeping their wealthiest customers, are offering experiences that drip with exclusivity.
By Elizabeth Paton
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CreditStephane Mahe/Reuters On the Runway
The Cannes Red Carpet Is So Much Better Than the Met Gala or the Oscars
Pay attention. There is something going on here.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditPhoto by Kristin-Lee Moolman. Styled by Suzanne Koller Rihanna Opens Up About Her New Clothing Line, the Future of Fashion and Her Next Album
For her next act, the pop star will become the first black woman in charge of a major luxury fashion house in Paris. Here, she gives T magazine an exclusive first look.
By Jeremy O. Harris
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CreditRebecca Smeyne for The New York Times Streetwear Is Still Hot. Influencers, a Survey Says, Are Not.
A new report highlights the way that a fashion subculture has been overtaken by big business.
By Jonah Engel Bromwich
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CreditNathan Bajar for The New York Times Vanity Is Not a Deadly Sin. It’s One of Life’s Last Vital Signs.
For these senior citizens, keeping up appearances is simply part of good health.
By Ruth La Ferla
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CreditSarah Blesener for The New York Times Proposed Fur Ban in New York Pits Animal Rights Advocates Against Black Ministers
With the City Council considering a ban on sales, protesters yelled, “Put people first,” and counterprotesters responded, “How many animals have to die?”
By William Neuman and Jeffery C. Mays
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Creditvia Calvin Klein It Smelled Like Gen X Spirit
How a “unisex” fragrance, as CK One was called in the ’90s, became the scent of a generation.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditMark and Colleen Hayward/Getty Images When Grunge Made Blue-Collar Culture Cool
Brooding bands like Alice in Chains and Soundgarden validated the noisy discontent of teenagers everywhere. For me, they looked a lot like home.
By Steven Kurutz
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CreditFirstview How to Wear Fall 2019 Trends Now
The fashion shows are over. Now the shopping — for tartan, quilting, bucket hats — begins.
By Hayley Phelan
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Credit 5 Great New Shoe Lines, One Common Denominator
The labels may be fresh on the scene, but the founders aren’t.
By Natalie Matthews Butcher
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Credit The New Minimalism: How to Marie Kondo Your Wardrobe
These three labels are rethinking the traditional retail model, with tightly edited collections that cater to a thoughtful new customer.
By Hayley Phelan
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Credit 9 Reasons to Not Hate February
Electronically heated puffers, pre-layered sweaters, supersize scarves and more to make winter dressing jollier.
By Natalie Matthews Butcher
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CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times The Freudian Loafer, the Intellectual and the Politician’s Son
Louis Sarkozy, the son of the former French president, wants to make academics into influencers.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditRichard Drew/Associated Press Does This Dress Make Me Look Guilty?
This week Anna Sorokin, Elizabeth Holmes and Cardi B all provided a visual brief on how to use clothes to communicate in court.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditPhoto Illustration by Tracy Ma/The New York Times; Courtesy of PrimaLoft (jacket) Hello, Little Microbe. Doesn’t This Jacket Look Yummy?
Now we can trick tiny bugs into eating our clothing. Consumption is finally a good thing.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditFrances McLaughlin-Gill/Condé Nast, via Getty Images Woven Into the Fabrics of France
For the Paris fashion world, Notre-Dame and all it represents was a gravitational pole.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditScott P. Yates/Rockford Register Star, via Associated Press Hey, Governor, What Are You Wearing?
J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, gets daily dress code recommendations, and he’s not alone. Welcome to the latest sign of the times.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditIsak Tiner for The New York Times T.W.A. Hotel: You May Want to Stay at Kennedy Airport. By Choice. Seriously.
The new T.W.A. hotel at J.F.K. is proving a designer magnet. Stan Herman, the “father of fashion week,” explains why.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditLana H. Haroun ‘It’s Going to Be the Image of the Revolution’
A smartphone snap from the Sudanese protests has gone viral. What is it about this picture that makes it so powerful?
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditDave Kotinsky/Getty Images for AAFA Fashion Has Become ‘Survival of the Fittest’
Andrew Rosen just stepped down as the chief executive of Theory, the brand he founded more than 20 years ago. He learned a few things along the way.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditDrew Angerer/Getty Images Are Bankers and Venture Capitalists Really Getting Fleeced by Patagonia?
They won’t be leaving “bros out in the cold,” says Patagonia. Here’s how the company is thinking about its famous banker fleeces.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditJoshua Lott for The New York Times It’s Possible Leggings Are the Future. Deal With It.
Last week they set off a firestorm at the University of Notre Dame. Why does this item of clothing get people so riled up?
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditDaniel Arnold for The New York Times A Mother’s Clock
Time follows no standard when you become a parent.
By Lydia Kiesling, Daniel Arnold and Eve Lyons
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CreditMarisa Chafetz for The New York Times Becoming a Woman Before Their Eyes
The American bat mitzvah has never been more widely broadcast than in 2019.
By Jaclyn Peiser, Eve Lyons and Marisa Chafetz
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CreditEli Durst for The New York Times What Would Texas Be Without Buc-ee’s?
A convenience store chain is the through-line of America’s second-most sprawling state.
By Eve Lyons, Eli Durst and Charley Locke
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CreditAubrey Trinnaman for The New York Times Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets
Ranchers and seekers of the “mythic West” travel each year to a small Nevada city to practice a tradition born of labor and regional identity.
By Aubrey Trinnaman, Jared Stanley and Eve Lyons
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CreditChris Maggio for The New York Times Life Without Longing
Who would I be if I wasn’t hustling to make some other person, real or imagined, fall in love with me?
By Chris Maggio, Melissa Broder and Eve Lyons
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CreditIsak Tiner for The New York Times We Made Gray Hair Even Prettier With Pastels
Mermaid hair is not just for millennials. Here’s proof.
By Crystal Martin
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CreditVG Waymer Everyone Is Crazy for Glass Skin. Here’s How to Get the Look.
The latest beauty trend has arrived from Korea and is taking over social media.
By Bee Shapiro
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CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times Are You Ready for Drive-Thru Botox?
A new wave of beauty bars aims to make injectables as easy as a Drybar blowout.
By Courtney Rubin
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CreditTim Franco for The New York Times Seoul (Watch) Seekers
Some got their timepieces online, others as gifts. But regardless of origin, it’s clear that watches have gone beyond South Korea’s bridal traditions.
By Vivian Morelli
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CreditArnd Wiegmann/Reuters Is Time Up for the World’s Largest Watch and Jewelry Fair?
Baselworld’s new director says consumers will become the show’s focus. Rolex and Patek Philippe have signed on, but other brands already have left.
By Robin Swithinbank
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CreditClara Tuma for The New York Times Making Zenith Watches Live Up to the Name
Julien Tornare, the chief executive since mid-2017, has his eye on invention and authenticity (even with a rapper and a singer as ambassadors).
By Robin Swithinbank
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Credit Highlighting Watchmakers ‘People Had Never Heard Of’
A new book, “Independent Watchmakers,” showcases 62 specialists from Slovakia to Japan.
By Melanie Abrams
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CreditThe Moscow Kremlin Museums Kremlin Museums Restore Catherine the Great’s Clock Inkstand
The piece will be included in a new exhibition, opening in July, that highlights the work of conservators.
By Melanie Abrams
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