Whether chillin’ or workin’, Jacob Godfrey’s got his Birkin. Much like the Hollywood hunks and A-list athletes who elevate their swag with the Hermès handbag, he’s leading the charge in the “Man Birkin” movement — a fashion-forward fad for the fellas. “It complements my outfits, and it’s really practical,” Godfrey, 33, of Fort Greene, told The…
Luxe NYC bridal designer Reem Acra, whose gauzy creations are beloved by celebs like Taylor Swift, won a whopping $38.7 million judgment — more than a decade after smoke from a nearby fire ruined more than 2,000 dresses in her Midtown studio. A Manhattan judge ordered troubled real estate developer the Chetrit Group to make…
Your picturesque and Instagram-worthy summer can be tossed to the side. It’s time to embrace a “frazzled English woman” summer. This new trend is probably one of the healthiest TikTok has seen in recent years. The term was first coined on TikTok by Australian fashion magazine Russh in 2022, and it’s having a resurgence as…
PARIS — If any force dominated the global fashion industry this season — eclipsing fabric, form and even the wildest silhouettes — it was the spectacle of celebrity. In a year marked by global anxiety and a hunger for fantasy, star power flooded Paris Fashion Week, turning runways into gladiator arenas where A-list icons, K-pop idols…
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…
Dress for the lifestyle you want, not the lifestyle you have – what was once a philosophy synonymous with 1980s fashion culture is now reemerging in Gen Z form. Writer Emilia Petrarca, in The Cut earlier this year, described the up-and-coming trend called “Boom Boom” fashion. She cited fashion forecaster Sean Monahan, who said that the “fetishization of the…
They don’t want toupee for hair transplants. Balding millennial men are nixing pricey trips to Turkey — preferring to rock retro rugs instead. Reverting back to the wiggy ways of their forefathers, 30-somethings with receding hairlines are resurrecting the once-démodé toupee — in a comeback of John Travolta-like proportions. Millennial men with hair loss are reviving the…
This haute tote may be too hot to handle — literally. Fashionistas near and far claim the straps of these costly designer totes are leaving their clothes stained and bag handles fused together. “POV: your $2,000 Goyard has officially entered the ‘melting’ phase of its lifespan and is no longer usable,” wrote NYC influencer Janet Lin, in…
Before deciding to sell her designer clothes, Monica Suk had barely heard of Dora Maar. Now, she wishes she never had — after the trendy NYC-based online luxury consignment shop went out of business, leaving her high and dry. The company and its founder and chief executive, Lauren Taylor Wilson, were once splashed across the pages of…
For the last decade, no matter the theme — flamboyant “Camp,” “Heavenly Bodies,” “Manus x Machina” — many ladies at the Metropolitan Museum’s annual Costume Institute Ball (aka the Met Gala) have displayed more skin than fabric. Emily Ratajkowski, Janelle Monae, Kim Kardashian, Lily James, Zoe Kravitz, Amanda Seyfried, Kendall Jenner, Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez…