It can take a lifetime to reckon with the legacy of a complicated parent, and Lucian Freud, in addition to being a great artist, was a parent of prodigious unconventionality. Born in 1922 in Berlin, he fathered at least fourteen children, mostly out of wedlock, across four decades. He never shared a home with his…
This year, Vogue’s September issue is landing with a different kind of thud. Anna Wintour named her successor as editor for Vogue’s prestigious US edition on Tuesday, but media and fashion insiders shrugged as the glossy faces declining readership — and relevance. The feared editrix, the icy inspiration for Meryl Streep’s cold and calculating fashion…
It begins with a familiar gesture: a tired millennial, phone in hand, thumb hovering above the screen before they finally toss it on to the bed with a sigh. Another night, another carousel of profiles offering little more than travel pics, taco preferences and the inevitable mention of The Office. The promise of endless romantic…
The race village at Port de Saint-Tropez is awash with people in nautical navy and white, the de facto dress code for the Loro Piana Giraglia Regatta. This is the second year the fashion house has lent its name to one of the Mediterranean’s most prestigious summer races. The course zooms from the French coast…
Ahead of last year’s September runway-show season, practically everyone in the fashion industry agreed that change was overdue. Across the board, slowed-down spending was discouraging bold ideas. Critics and consumers were bored. So were designers themselves—even the highest-profile creative directors were fantasizing about a shake-up. What transpired was more of an earthquake. Over the next…
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…
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…
The New Yorker is not, by any definition, a fashion magazine, but it is—and nearly always has been—a magazine concerned with fashion. The publication’s mascot, Eustace Tilley, is, after all, defined by accessories: his gleaming top hat, crisp white gloves, and dandyish monocle are all totems of both persnickety good taste and the febrile effort…
Heather Barnes UN consultant, businesswoman and founder of Tomorrows Heather Barnes in block print trench coat by Hamaji and Birkenstock suede clogs “My summer wardrobe is in constant rotation as I am away with work quite a lot, and I don’t pack away summer clothes in the winter. You always need a good jacket in…
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…