Popdust, a music news site, where you can also purchase the looks. “Fashion Star” on NBC is probably the extreme example of the possibilities of merging content and commerce with pop stars, designers and even top-tier retailers. But those lines have been blurring for some time, as magazines adopt e-commerce strategies (expect a big push [...]
Casey Kelbaugh for The New York TimesDaphne Guinness at the Met gala in 2011. Still waiting for your Costume Institute Gala invitation to arrive in the mail? Don’t fret. This year, you can watch fashion’s royalty gather in front of your computer screen while it’s being live streamed. Cathy Horyn reports on the rise of [...]
A few years ago, on a visit to the McQueen studios in London, I poked my head into a room of interns beavering away at rows of desks. They could have been accountants, I thought, poring over their Victorian ledgers. That scene could be duplicated across the fashion world, as new design-school graduates take their [...]
From left: Stephen Lovekin/Getty (3); Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg Here are the highlights from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, including the red carpet. The always busy Nicola Formichetti opens Nicopanda, a month-long pop up store at Lane Crawford, in Hong Kong this week. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the fashion director at Lincoln Center, is starting her own [...]
The CMYK shoe by hamansutra. It was serendipitous that a headphone cable fell on top of Haman Alimardani’s shoes while he was D.J.-ing one evening. The accident lent itself to his artful design: the CMYK shoe by the New York-based fashion label, hamansutra. The shoes feature stereo mini-jacks for laces. A fresh take on the [...]
Last night, more than 450 people gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria for a cocktail party and dinner to honor Bill Cunningham, The New York Times photographer, whose two columns, On the Street and Evening Hours, appear each week in Sunday Styles. The New York glitterati were out in force — Mercedes Bass, Annette de la Renta, [...]
British Film Institute, via Museum of the Moving ImageA scene from the 1965 film, “The Tenth Victim.” British Film Institute, via Museum of the Moving ImageMarlene Dietrich in the 1936 “Desire,” at the Fashion in Film Festival. WHEN Ursula Andress, clad in a silver bikini, lifts her stiletto shoe after a killing scene in the [...]
It looks like the spring editions of New York Fashion Week will continue to commence on the first Thursday after Labor Day for the foreseeable future. Despite recent efforts to push back the beginning of the fashion season by at least a week to give New York designers more time to prepare, an idea that [...]
A Jets Super Bowl ring at N.F.L. Shop at Draft. If you cannot get to London to see the crown jewels, their American cousins are on view in an N.F.L. Shop pop-up at West 42nd Street and Avenue of the Americas. That is where the 45 Super Bowl rings are being displayed through April 15, [...]
Jennifer S. Altman for The New York TimesFred Distenfeld and his daughter Claire Distenfeld in their new shop. Jennifer S. Altman for The New York TimesFivestory. On Thursday afternoon, Fred Distenfeld looked unfazed and spotless in his suit as workmen carried slabs of polished stone into the town house at 18 East 69th Street. On [...]
