The Future of Fashion Is Female: Nine Designers Leading the Way

The Future of Fashion Is Female: Nine Designers Leading the Way

Over the past few years, amidst the reshuffling of male creative directors at many of fashion’s most important houses, a question has emerged again and again—just where are all the female designers? The answer is quite simple, actually: They’re making clothes that prioritize women’s multifaceted real lives rather than perceived fantasies about them—though that’s not…

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Just How Big Can Fashion Substack Get?

Just How Big Can Fashion Substack Get?

Emily Schuman thought she was done writing anything longer than an Instagram caption. With Cupcakes and Cashmere, where she started posting daily updates since 2008, she became one of the first fashion bloggers to turn her side hustle into a multi-faceted business, eventually hiring a team of writers and editors and selling jewellery, homewares and…

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Inside a Family's Chic Hong Kong Apartment

Inside a Family’s Chic Hong Kong Apartment

An Ingo Maurer pendant light hangs above a bespoke table and banquette in the kitchen dining area. At the front, an enfilade of reception rooms opens onto an expansive terrace planted with delicate foliage and trees including a Hong Kong orchid. There is a generously sized back garden, too. Though, here, the French landscaper Arnaud…

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What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week

What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week

Just after 1 p.m. this past Wednesday, President Trump posted a statement on Truth Social saying that he was pausing, for ninety days, the historically steep, economically nonsensical Liberation Day tariffs on virtually the entire world, which he had announced the week before. Retreat was inevitable. The tariffs had been so hastily designed that they…

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