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Thobe, Tagelmust and a Denim Kimono: How Deirdra Govan Dressed Mahershala Ali’s Hitman
In Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father who is also a contract killer. Costume designer Deirdra Govan built his wardrobe, and his world, from Tuareg indigo, Baye Fall references, Texas iconography and Black Muslim style.
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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 Lincoln Center every fall. How ballet became one of fashion’s most demanding commissions.
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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 actresses turned the screen into fashion’s most powerful showroom, and where to see that history today.
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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 baseball stadium in Queens, and arrives in the front row of a Paris menswear show. Along the way, West African music has become one of the most influential stages for clothes anywhere in…
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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 they said. A fringed suede jacket in Times Square. A bowling shirt in Bed-Stuy. A school blazer on the Upper East Side. Each was a decision made by a costume designer, usually on…
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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 under hot lights, changed in seconds in the dark and expected to look flawless from the front row and from the back of the balcony. When it works, the audience never thinks about…
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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 red carpet in fashion. The cameras focus on the arrivals. The rules, though, come from somewhere quieter: an exhibition in the museum’s Costume Institute, and a short phrase the Met calls the dress…
