Melanie Ward, the British-born stylist whose modernist eye and collaborations with Helmut Lang and Calvin Klein helped reshape fashion—and Harper’s Bazaar—in the 1990s and early 2000s, has died. Her death was announced in a post on her personal Instagram account. The cause, it stated, was cancer. Ward’s impact on Bazaar and on the industry at…
NEED TO KNOW Anna Wintour opened up about her career in journalism in a new profile for The New Yorker During her conversation, she reflected on getting fired from one of her first journalism jobs at Harper’s Bazaar in 1975 As she recalled the “brief” firing, she noted that “everyone should be fired once” Anna Wintour…
It’s just days ahead of Rkive City’s digital presentation at Milan Fashion Week and an exposition in Paris to present Reclaim the City S/S ‘26 collection. Ritwik Khanna is caught up in a meeting, and the team lets us take a look around the studio at The Dhanmill, Delhi, which also doubles up as his workshop. Some of the clothes on the…
Paris Haute Couture Week Fall/Winter 2025–26 concluded a week ago and, as expected, was a spectacle. From surreal silhouettes to detailed craftsmanship, the runways were brimming with artistry and awe. But at the end of each show, as the curtains drew to a close, and the designers emerged from backstage, a different reality set in—one…
Some nights, when the world has talked too much and touched too little, I slip into a dress that doesn’t mean a thing. No slogans stitched into the hem. No vintage references. No nods to pop cultures I’ve read about but never felt cool enough to claim. Just silk. Just skin. Just the whisper of…
Kelly Rutherford and her look-alike son, Hermés Giersch, are cover models. The “Gossip Girl” alum and her eldest child, 18, appeared on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Netherlands in a new photo shoot. The cover shot featured Rutherford, 56, wrapped in a plush blanket and wearing chic white pants as her shirtless son reclined on…