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Fashion, entertainment and culture coverage from MOAM, plus features on the talent in the directory.
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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. It named them, rapped about them, customized them and built stores around them. In 2015, the Brooklyn Museum hosted The Rise of Sneaker Culture, a touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of…
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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 the subway to the office, the wind that funnels down the avenues, the train car that feels like July, and the slush that waits at every corner. Dressing well here is less about…
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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 on the sidewalk, where editors, buyers, models, stylists and locals turn the walk between venues into a runway of their own. For the spring 2027 season, the official schedule ran from Thursday, September…
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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 it in a 2025 feature marking 15 years of Lagos Fashion Week, for a formidable style culture that is less widely acknowledged. The streets, the parties and the lines outside the shows are…
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The Museum at FIT: New York’s Free Fashion Museum, Explained
On a Chelsea corner of Seventh Avenue sits one of the world’s specialized fashion museums, and it costs nothing to walk in. What it holds, how it works and what to see this season.
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Kente, Thread by Thread: How to Read Ghana’s Most Famous Cloth
It began, the Asante say, with a spider’s web. Kente is a royal cloth, a weaving system and a visual language. Here is how it is made, worn and named.
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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 careers every fashion student should know.
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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 began, what sets them apart and how to choose.
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Inside the Costume Institute: How the Met Made Fashion a Museum Art
Before the gala and the red carpet, there was a theater collection and a wartime bet on Seventh Avenue. How the Met’s Costume Institute came to be, and what is on view now.
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