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Fashion, entertainment and culture coverage from MOAM, plus features on the talent in the directory.
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Three Prizes, One Year: Zane Li of LII and the New York Way to Win
On October 20, the Chongqing-born, New York-based designer Zane Li won the 2026 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, his third major prize of the year after the Fashion Trust US award and the LVMH Prize’s Karl Lagerfeld Prize. Who he is, what LII makes, and what the wins mean for a small independent label.
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Last Call for Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses at the Brooklyn Museum
More than 140 haute couture pieces, a 180 million-year-old fossil and a working atelier: the first major New York presentation of the Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen closes in Brooklyn on December 6. What to see, and how to plan your visit.
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When Queens Was the Runway: Inside MoMA PS1’s New York Fashion, 1980–1984
Before museums made fashion a blockbuster, a former public school in Long Island City pinned clothes to its walls and set them in plaster. MoMA PS1’s new exhibition revisits the stylist Hollywood Di Russo’s fashion program and the designers, from Willi Smith to Betsey Johnson, who showed there.
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Fade to Black: Anthony Vaccarello Leaves Saint Laurent, and Paris Starts Over
Ten years after his debut, Anthony Vaccarello closed his Saint Laurent tenure in gold and then black beneath the Eiffel Tower. What he built at the house, from the Trocadéro shows to a film company, and what his exit means for a Paris season of new beginnings.
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Copenhagen, on Two Wheels: Street Style From the Fashion Week With Rules
Copenhagen Fashion Week is small, fast and unusually strict. Its spring/summer 2027 edition, held August 3 to 7, 2026, presented 34 shows and presentations over four days of runway programming, according to the organizers, and marked the week’s 20th anniversary. It also requires brands applying for its official schedule to document how they meet a…
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Johannesburg, Dressed: Knitwear, Shweshwe and a City of Runways
Johannesburg is a city that likes to be seen. Its fashion calendar runs from the polished business of South African Fashion Week to the community energy of Soweto Fashion Week, and its designers now show in Paris and sell in New York. To understand how the city dresses, start with its runways, then look at…
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Parisian Ease, in Practice: The Stripe, the Flat and the Art of the Uniform
“Effortless” is the word most often attached to Parisian style, and it is a little misleading. The pieces that define the look have specific, documented origins. Most of them started as uniforms or working clothes. What Paris did was refine them, repeat them and wear them with confidence until they became classics. Here are three…
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Paris, Spring 2027: Balloon Trousers, Prada Purple and the Discipline of Less
Paris is the last stop of fashion month, and by the time the shows arrive, the people outside them have seen everything New York, London and Milan had to offer. The spring 2027 womenswear season ran from September 28 to October 6, 2026, according to the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode,…
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Fifth and 57th: Bill Cunningham and the Invention of New York Street Style
If you have ever stopped a stranger on the sidewalk to ask where they got their coat, you have done what Bill Cunningham did for nearly four decades. The difference is that he photographed the answer, and The New York Times published it. Cunningham, who died in June 2016 at 87, spent nearly 40 years…
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