For almost 40 years, Davé, a Chinese restaurant in the heart of Paris, attracted the who’s who of fashion, film, art and music. Opened in 1982, it was not just a place to eat, but an exclusive, intimate salon where celebrities, artists and designers gathered for what felt like a private, timeless film sequence. Conversation…
Every year, on the first Monday in May, people tune in to watch celebrities walk up the steps of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on what’s considered fashion’s biggest night. Vogue—more specifically, Anna Wintour—has transformed the opening of its spring fashion exhibit into one of the most publicized moments of the Hollywood social…
And… scene. That’s a complete wrap on Paris Fashion Week, with the Spring 2026 season coming to one almighty out-of-this-world bang with Matthieu Blazy’s highly anticipated debut as Chanel creative director. Staged within Paris’ Grand Palais, the designer fused heritage with modernity for a collection that looked to the future and propelled the fabled French…
The timing of House of McQueen couldn’t be better. New York Fashion Week is upon us, a favored time of year for human peacocks to bestride the streets of Manhattan. Darrah McCloud’s play, at The Mansion at Hudson Yards and booking through Oct. 19, is about the life and work of the legendary British designer,…
Decades of remakes, rewrites, and generational misremembrance assembled the present-day Monster. Not unlike an echo chamber, Shelley’s portrait of the monster was reformed into the towering, stitched, and bolt-adorned creature seen in the mainstream. The film industry’s adaptation possessed permanence in pop culture, becoming the eternal image of the original novel. By nature of Frankenstein’s…
The question is far from new, yet it never loses its urgency. Why, in an industry where women are both the main consumers and the majority of the workforce, do they remain absent from positions of real authority? Fashion has long been regarded as a women’s domain. Yet a closer look at the power structures…
The story of the truly original—and truly outrageous—blue-blooded fashion editor Isabella Blow epitomizes what fashion legend is made of. Born in London, Blow moved to America in the late 1970s and cut her teeth at Vogue, initially hired as Anna Wintour’s assistant and later as André Leon Talley’s. With her eccentric wardrobe, eccentric friends (like…
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Florence Pugh jumping off the second-highest building in the world. The high-flying, high fashion-favoring Pugh performed the leap for Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*,” hailing the studio’s new era and looking absolutely fabulous while doing it. Here are the highlights from Pugh’s press tour — put together with the help of…