Making It Personal
May 20, 2015
Following years of speculation and months of anticipation, Jony Ive’s vision for tomorrow is here.
Grey Gardens
February 26, 2015
Opulent fabrics and gently faded florals inspired by Versailles recall a past era revisited by Abbey Lee Kershaw as a modern Miss Havisham.
Monuments
January 6, 2015
The visual boundary-breaker takes his camera, crew, and his love of film noir to the brutal, frozen wilds of Greenland to capture the nocturnal lives of glaciers.
Pretty Wasted
October 17, 2014
Elegance undone. Wearing their big night out like a badge of honor, fashion’s wildest—Anja, Edita, Daria, Andreea and Lily—are the last to leave the party.
White Lines
March 11, 2014
The structure of tailoring plays off transparency, knits, and a suggestion of skin to create a modern, almost futuristic sensuality.
Claire Danes
November 2, 2013
Claire Danes isn’t a bipolar CIA agent who likes to listen to jazz and has what has turned out to be a very healthy suspicion of everyone and everything. But she plays the best one on TV right now. The actress on her Homeland highs, her so-called second act, making faces, motherhood, and the more subtle pleasures of going to extremes.
The Beauty Within
September 20, 2013
Sarah Burton’s vision for McQueen this season suggests an otherworldly futuristic allure inspired by a bygone era, with Guido Palau’s crisscrossing face guards exquisitely encasing the girls’ faces with tiny pearls that are both seductive and armor
The Goddesses
August 27, 2013
Skin, fur, and pearls—an intoxicatingly timeless combination that frames the sophisticated, smoldering sexuality of the girls who set the room on fire.
The 21st Century Girl: Edie Campbell
August 24, 2013
Campaigns! Shows! Photo shoots! Trips to Sri Lanka! Right now Edie Campbell is a very busy young woman (with a horse named Armani)
Done Undone
August 14, 2013
“Wet hair is the fashion accessory of the season. The styling was kept simple to allow for the focus to be on the drenched girls.”
The Hoarder
May 30, 2013
Here comes Pre-Fall.
Honor
October 14, 2012
Fall’s new silhouette channels the spirit of the far east. Covered-up layers and wrappings form new shapes that honor traditions of the past and evoke a proud solemnity borne of ancient dynasties and transported to a modern context.
In Living Color
August 24, 2012
When I was growing up, colored hair was shocking, and being gay was kind of hidden. Now, all those things are more normal.
Francisco de Goya
March 26, 2012
Inspired by Francisco de Goya, art’s master of romantic realism, a gallery of portraits of women on the edge, as Spanish iconography mixes with gothic influences, and a contemporary fragility meets a subversive darkness
Sarah Burton
February 13, 2012
When Sarah Burton was named Creative Director of Alexander McQueen two years ago, it was under the most tragic of circumstances. But Burton has more than risen to the challenge, introducing her own voice, a softer femininity, and a fragile vulnerability into the collections while remaining true to the dark beauty that was at the heart of McQueen’s vision. With three critically acclaimed showings, an exhibition at the Met that broke attendance records, and the royal wedding dress of the century under her belt, what’s next for the House of McQueen—and the woman who finds herself custodian of its legacy?
Guido
August 21, 2011
Hair stylist Guido Palau has had his wildly inventive hand in dreaming up some of fashion’s most forward neck-up trends and radical runway spectacles, from early-’90s grunge to androgynous gamine, from the ultra-fabulous to the otherworldly fantastical. Inside the heady business of a haute-hair revolutionary
The Clash
July 11, 2011
The spirit of punk rises and infiltrates as angelic upstarts go tough-chic, mixing prints with color, with leather, and with denim, all fitted on a sharp silhouette and with a nonchalant ease. Rude girls
The New Look
May 27, 2011
Big coat, wide pants, brimmed hat. The new mood in menswear is a lesson in restraint. Monastic austerity meets quiet luxury. A classic masculine vocabulary, reduced. Arise, brethren.
Nacho Figueras
September 30, 2009
Nacho Figueras is the face of Polo, the brand, and the face of polo, the sport. In fact, the 32-year-old Argentine player has made it his mission to bring polo out of the gentlemen’s club and into the hearts and living rooms of America. The future of an entire sport might just rest on the irresistibility of a single man.
Fly Girls
November 25, 2008
MODERNISTS ARE SLEEK, STRONG AND FAST. AND THE RADICAL EXO-SKELETAL SHAPES AND AERODYNAMIC SILHOUETTES FROM TODAY’S MOST ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNERS ARE PERFECT FOR LADIES WHO MEAN “DON’T BUG ME.”