Beauty

My first job in fashion was when I was 13 years old. I was working as a stock boy in a sporting goods shop in my hometown Elmira, New York. We sold football jerseys, basketball jerseys, all the equipment, and it was all made with such high-quality materials. I was obsessed.When I was 18, I worked in another...

Vibe: Busy, bustling, shop ‘till you drop. SoHo has long been the buzziest place to shop for luxury, but Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue are having a bit of a revival at present, while Williamsburg has established itself as a shopping destination with the recent arrival of brands like Hermès and Chanel.Consumer: Fashion-forward, always. New York begets a...

Is it time to tell a new American story?For decades, the American Dream promised opportunity and upward mobility. In recent years, however, that narrative has been complicated by the increasing visibility of extreme wealth concentration and a lack of opportunities for young people.“The reason America was so impressive for so long is because it represented concentrated human achievement,”...

It’s America's 250th birthday this year, so we’re zeroing on the US fashion market. It's a high-priority region and significant growth driver, but challenges exist both from homegrown brands and international labels navigating the opportunity.In this webinar, Vogue Business executive editor Hilary Milnes and US editor Madeleine Schulz will examine key considerations, from where brands should show up...

For some, summer is about wearing lightweight bohemian pieces, like flowing blouses, voluminous dresses, a lots of frills and flounces. For others, it’s essential to hold on tight to evergreen wardrobe pieces, like denim.When it comes to heatwave dressing in the city, the street style set has decreed that the only way to wear your favorite jeans is...

Eagle Eye exists to explain the gaps—between how we dress and how we live; between the spaces you’re drawn to and the coat you keep reaching for. Each month, London-based designer and creative director Alex Eagle will tap her roster of friends and experts to explore the “why” behind a certain theme—why we’re drawn to certain things, and...

“The Glorious Tradition,” by Katherine Betts, was originally published in the December 1995 issue of Vogue.For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter here.The photographs are famous: Lisa Fonssagrives posing for Irving Penn in Balenciaga’s petal dress. The couturiers are stars: Karl Lagerfeld striding triumphantly down the runway amid a flood of...

When the memoirist Belle Burden, author of Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, told Drew Barrymore in April that no woman should give up complete control of her finances, my breath caught in my throat.Sure, in reading her book I felt fairly sure that how Burden was going to pay the electric bill or put food on the table...

At the risk of sounding like one of those boring small-talkers who only talk about the weather: What a hot summer it’s been already, huh? Heatwave-worthy temperatures have been felt across the globe this week—and while scorching heat can make chic dressing a challenge, the best dressed stars of the week rose to the occasion, choosing striking designs...

The Sacai women’s pre-collection typically joins the men’s runway, where there’s a mirroring between them. While today’s Soul II Soul-infused show leaned more towards the guys, with just a handful of women’s looks in the mix, the parallels across the two collections were obvious—and easy to imagine in everyday scenarios. The pants and extended shorts with XL pouch...