Beauty

The two temporary spaces in Xintiandi that serve as Shanghai Fashion Week’s main venue powerfully remind me of NYFW’s Bryant Park tents from back in the day. The security gates, the sponsorship stands (thanks, Lays, for all the chips), the rubberneckers: functionally it works great, but this is no theater of dreams.So props to Jacques Wei, who with...

“We want to make this Chinese girly image,” said Yansong Liu backstage, as we regarded the wonderful ruffle-piped qipao dress in patched madras that was my favorite cocktail of fashion flavors in a collection full of them. Madras is a traditionally Indian fabric pattern, which via British colonialism became appropriated into the canon of worn Americana as an...

“I create the woman I would like to become,” said Yirantian Guo after this latest Shanghai Fashion Week show at the Labelhood hub. This might sound straightforward enough, but as Guo elaborated both on her runway and in the chat afterwards, that woman she would like to become contains far too many facets ever to be definable via...

We shared our fall 2026 season favorites and now we’re sharing yours too. Over the course of fashion month, our analytics team was hard at work tracking which pictures were the most saved on our website and app. The number one slot goes to Sarah Burton’s Givenchy and her floral, fringed halter dress worn by Mona Tougaard with...

It began with a vanity. When West Elm reached out to Emma Chamberlain to see if she’d be interested in designing a collection, the answer was an automatic yes—and she knew right off the bat what item she wanted to start with. “I loved vanities when I was a kid and I’d always wanted one so badly,” she...

Kirk’s career began in the late 1970s; after studying medicine and then film history, he ended up working as an art director for advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi. He had met the renowned stylist and art director Michael Roberts, then at the British Sunday Times in 1977, before he went on to Tatler, Vanity Fair, and the New...

Few designers know instinctively what women want to wear before they do. Yet, Tory Burch has always had the uncanny ability to peer into the future and unlock our unconscious desires. Her spring 2026 runway show, held at Sotheby’s at The Breuer, cemented her ability to bridge the liminal space between past and present. It’s a New Yorker’s take...

“What Anthropic is doing is interesting because it’s trying to give something intangible a physical culture,” says Tom Garland, founder of brand consultancy Edition + Partners. “You can’t ‘photograph’ AI, and it’s difficult to dramatize. So pop-ups, objects, merch, printed matter — those things give it texture. They make it feel more legible in the real world.”Tech as...

For marketers, these formats offer what generative AI cannot: friction, materiality, and human presence. In this landscape, ‘human-made’ becomes a marker of status — something consumers can see, feel, and trust. As a result, community-building is being repositioned as a status symbol.Even AI companies are operationalizing this approach. Anthropic recently opened a pop-up in New York’s West Village,...

As was clear from the outset, this Tao show was all about circles. Held in the Comme des Garçons Aoyama HQ, as has become customary for Tao Kurihara’s eponymous label, it began with giant gingham circles patched together in baby pink and blue to form voluminous tops and skirts. Round details followed in almost every look, from rounded...