AROUND the time I graduated from college, my parents sold the house I grew up in. It came as a shock to me to learn that my bedroom, which I had always assumed would be preserved for future generations to visit — sort of like a Presidential library with ...
Louis Vuitton seemed to provide the perfect bookend to the Milan-Paris ready-to-wear season, which ended tonight. Between Miuccia Pradain Milan and Marc Jacobs at Vuitton we saw the return of the lush, full-hipped woman, her breasts served up like ripe fruit. Do those dry, sober minimalists have a chance next ...
French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy welcomes Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana Medvedeva, March 2, 2010 at the Elysee palace in Paris.
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The private show that took place Tuesday, to the classical music Mr. McQueen had been listening to as he cut and fitted the 2010 autumn collection, was a requiem for a great designer. His vision of Gothic glory, with a world bathed in religious symbolism, was translated not just with ...
PARIS — The wall is pitch black, yet as eyes adjust to the dark, outfits appear like cats in the night: the gleam of satin on a lapel, the sheen of a button, the outline of “le smoking” — the tuxedo suit.
“All my wardrobe — I think I have worn ...
Apparently everybody got the memo about minimalism.
The fall ready-to-wear collections continued their clean sweep as Stella McCartney sent out linear coats with only a tiny notch in the front for a detail and crewnecks and slacks so plain and simple, you had to remind yourself you weren’t looking at Ann ...
The Scene: a Viktor & Rolf Show on a cold winter day in a tent at the Tuileries.
“Is that Lenny Kravitz?” Michael Roberts, the style director of Vanity Fair, asked as he gazed across the catwalk at someone being mobbed by paparazzi in the celebrity section of the front row.
“No,” ...
Watching the designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren of Viktor & Rolf laboriously undress the model Kristen McMenamy one layer at a time, until all she had on was a skimpy white bodysuit as she stood on a revolving platform at the center of their runway on Saturday, the thought ...
You can count on the Oscars for a night of epic glamour meant to pump adrenaline into viewers’ veins. As for fashion the kind that pushes boundaries and fires creative minds its advent on the red carpet is as rare as an ice storm in Belize. ...
HOLLYWOOD’S awards marathon, a seven-month series of cocktail parties and prize banquets culminating with the Oscars, does not come with a survival guide. If it did, one entry might read: pigs, ornamental.
Mark Boal, thrust into the awards spotlight for writing and producing “The Hurt Locker,” his first movie, was already ...