Art
A Cherokee Fashion Designer Who Mixed Native Modernism with Midcentury Trends
SANTA FE, NM — The worlds of fashion and fine art often collide, both in the museum and on the runway.
Fashion
Opinion
In Cindy Sherman’s Street Style Satire, the Joke’s on Her
Chameleonic photographer Cindy Sherman is featured in March’s Harper’s Bazaar in a send-up of street style Instagrammers that makes both the artist and the magazine look out of date and tone deaf.
Art
The Fiercely Contemporary Aesthetic of Today's Native American Fashion Designers
SALEM, Mass. — Do not walk into Native Fashion Now expecting fringes and buckskin.
In Brief
Protect Yourself from Unwanted Photographs with This Hoodie
Attention shoppers: are you tired of paparazzi following you around, taking bright flash pictures and selling them to tabloids?
Books
Rare Stephen Sprouse Sketches Shine a Light on the 1980s Style Icon
If there were ever a fashion world equivalent of Andy Warhol, the universe found it in Downtown street kid Stephen Sprouse.
Art
Why One Ecuadorian Town Has Three Panama Hat Museums
CUENCA, Ecuador — The cool breeze in Cuenca, a city nuzzled in the Ecuadorian Andes at 8,000 feet elevation, blows through its cobblestone streets, rustling the skirts of indigenous women who wear long braids down their back with a baby wrapped in a bright colored shawl slung over their shoulders.
Art
Latest Saint Laurent Film Is a Portrait of the Times, Not the Artist
No fewer than two French biopics about Yves Saint Laurent have been released in the last two years, suggesting that a competitive rush to make the Saint Laurent film began immediately following his death in 2008.
Art
A Look at the Life of a "Geriatric Starlet"
"Dressing should be fun. Life is short and life is grey, so you can easily dress yourself up, make yourself happy, and then you make other people happy," says nonagenarian fashion icon Iris Apfel in a new documentary by Albert Maysles.
Opinion
Four Lingering Questions from Last Night’s Metropolitan Museum Gala
The fashion world’s elite came out last night in what is likely one of the most important events in the industry, as well as a huge fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art
A Documentary Offers a New Look at the House of Dior
In his new film, director Frédéric Tcheng traces the voyage that Raf Simons, the current creative director of the House of Dior, embarks upon when designing his first haute couture collection there.
Art
Sitting at the Thrones of Nigerian Kings
In January, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi caused a stir when he stepped out in a pin-striped suit emblazoned with his own name.
Art
Disinterring the Lost Glamor of Grief
Grief hit what may be its peak of glamor between 1815 and 1915. The devastating losses of the Civil War, suppression of women's rights, and Victorian and Edwardian affinity for the macabre resulted in generations of widows spending years in their dour "weeds."