The New York Times2 hours agoThe Thirst for Merchverified_publisherThe New York Times - Anna Grace LeeOn Friday morning, a cloudless sky stretched above the Brooklyn Museum. As the sun marked the arrival of a sweltering July, clusters of people lined up an hour before opening to be the first ones inside. It was the first day that “Figures of Speech,” a multimedia retrospective of work by the …
The New York Times2 hours agoBlockbusters at Balenciaga and Margielaverified_publisherThe New York Times - Vanessa FriedmanPARIS — It was just a regular Wednesday afternoon — except the sidewalks of the normally sedate Avenue Georges V were clogged by a shrieking mass of teenagers, smartphones aloft, free hands waving over police barriers in a frenzy. It was the sort of scene that wouldn’t be surprising outside a rock …
The New York TimesNowIt Will Change Your View of African Fashionverified_publisherThe New York Times - Elizabeth PatonLONDON — The influence of Africa and its fashion scene has redefined the geography of the fashion industry in recent years, breaking barriers with its vitality and its reimagining of what creativity can be. A continent whose fashion has often been imitated, yet gone largely underrecognized by the …
The New York Times1 day agoNakedness Is Everywhere in Fashion, Even the Heel of a Shoeverified_publisherThe New York Times - Jessica TestaAll fashion week, we will be spotlighting the small details we saw on the runways that surprised or delighted us: Bring on the portable fog machines and antique fork jewelry. PARIS — Blink and you might have missed one of the most explicit homages to Azzedine Alaïa by his design successor, Pieter …
The New York Times1 day ago‘The Golden Age of Thrifting Is Over’verified_publisherThe New York Times - Isabella Grullón PazCorrection: July 6, 2022 An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of an online consignment store. It is ThredUp, not ThreadUp. Tina Koeppe grew up thrifting. When she was younger, she would spend weekends going to thrift stores with her mother, hunting for unique trinkets and garments …
The New York Times1 day agoChanel and Armani: Playing for Keeps in a Barbie Worldverified_publisherThe New York Times - Vanessa FriedmanPARIS — These days it’s hard to see any bright pink item of clothing and not think: “Barbie!” Images from the Greta Gerwig movie, currently filming with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (among others), have become the social media dopamine hit of summer — rife with plastic-y postmodern perfection and …