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Last Call for Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses at the Brooklyn Museum
More than 140 haute couture works by the Dutch designer stand beside art, fossils and a reconstructed atelier, in her first major…
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When Queens Was the Runway: Inside MoMA PS1’s New York Fashion, 1980–1984
MoMA PS1 revisits the ten fashion exhibitions, from 1980 to 1984, that stylist Hollywood Di Russo staged in a Long Island City…
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Fade to Black: Anthony Vaccarello Leaves Saint Laurent, and Paris Starts Over
Anthony Vaccarello stepped down at Saint Laurent after a decade, closing beneath the Eiffel Tower in gold, then black, and leaving behind…
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Couture on Pointe: From the Ballets Russes to New York City Ballet’s Fashion Gala
A century ago, Chanel dressed dancers in knitted bathing suits for a Paris ballet. Today, fashion houses design for the stage at…
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Paris in Close-Up: How Couture and Cinema Made Each Other
A Givenchy dress on a deserted Fifth Avenue. A Saint Laurent trench in a Buñuel film. How two Paris couturiers and two…
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From the Shrine to the Stadium: How Afrobeats Carried Lagos Style to the World
Some fashion stories begin on a runway. This one begins in a nightclub in Lagos, travels through a Broadway theater and a…
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Dressing New York: The Costume Designers Who Put the City on Screen
Few cities are as familiar on screen as New York, and its characters are often remembered by what they wore before anything…
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Curtain Up: Inside the Art of Broadway Costume Design
A Broadway costume has a harder life than almost any garment in fashion. It is worn eight times a week, sweated through…
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Dressing the Theme: How the Met Gala Dress Code Shapes Fashion’s Biggest Red Carpet
On the first Monday in May, the steps of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue turn into the most watched…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Uptowns to Lafayette Street: How New York Wrote the Rules of Sneaker Style
Every city has a shoe. In New York, it has always been the sneaker, and the city did not just wear them.…
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The New York Layer: How to Dress for the City’s Cold Months, by the Numbers
Ask a New Yorker about winter and you will rarely hear about the cold alone. You will hear about the walk from…
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Outside the Shows: What New York Wore to Fashion Week, Spring 2027
Every September, New York Fashion Week puts two shows on at once. One happens inside, on the official calendar. The other happens…
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Lagos Style: Color, Craft and a City That Dresses Without Apology
Lagos does not dress quietly. Nigeria’s largest city is known around the world for its music and film, and, as Vogue put…
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Ann Lowe, Willi Smith, Patrick Kelly: Three Black American Designers Who Changed the Story
A couturier who dressed America’s most famous bride, a New Yorker who invented “street couture,” and a Mississippian who conquered Paris. Three…
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Where New York Learns Fashion: A Guide to the City’s Fashion Schools
FIT, Parsons, Pratt and LIM each grew out of a different idea of what fashion education should be. Here is how they…