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“There is more awareness of the role that Indian artisans play in Western haute couture, but I think it’s just the start of the conversation,” says US-based digital fashion commentator Hanan Besovic. “Too many houses need to acknowledge that a lot of their craft has been done in India. But as far as the perception of fashion goes,...

“Just clothing.” As ridiculously self-evident as that sounds, at MM6 Maison Margiela nothing is ever just anything. Behind its distinctive aesthetic is a methodology and, for those who know how to look, an element of surprise. In this season’s collection notes, the brand described this as “everyday dressing made strange.”Then again, coming up with fresh takes on staples,...

Michael Jordan with his black Ferrari 512 TR and “M AIR J” license plate, Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV in old-school Adidas crouched on a fiery red supercar that didn’t quite look like a Ferrari, Christopher Lambert in a Ferrari 550 and a hitman-smooth trench: Rocco Iannone’s moodboard for this pre-spring collection was especially fueled by US references....

Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we examine the celebrity couples who give us hope for our own romantic futures as we try to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.It should be clear from my Love Story recaps just how highly I think of Sarah...

Italy may be out of contention at the World Cup, but one thing that they’re certainly in is fashion month. The spring 2027 menswear season kicks off in Florence with the Pitti Uomo fair, a sprawling tradeshow held at Fortezza da Basso, where brands present their latest wares to peacocking dandies. This time around, Dover Street Market’s Kei...

Michelle Obama is keeping her late mother’s memory alive through her clothing.Today the former first lady joined her husband, former President Barack Obama, for an address to stakeholders at the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois. (The center opens to the public on June 19.) For the occasion, Obama chose to pay homage to her mother, Marian...

Swooning admirers aside, many fans of the video also seemed enchanted simply by the idea of spending one’s days up in the trees, making sure that these living landmarks continue to thrive.Dylan Barrett-Smith didn’t grow up dreaming of being an arborist—but that’s only because he didn’t know it was a job. “I always liked working outside, I always...

Adapting that resonance from six hour-long episodes into a 75-minute show was ambitious, but MarcAurele’s technique was simple: make lists. He wrote down everything he knew about hockey, Canada, and Russia, as well as sexual puns and double entendres.“I have lists of slang terms that I’ve compiled and I add to every day. I have lists of sex...

“We’ve got a new customer profile,” Rachel Comey said at the top of a discussion of her new resort collection. “Commencement speakers. We had two in one day in one of the stores.” Comey prides herself on being a designer who pays attention to the real world scenarios where clients wear her clothes. For example, this is not...

“To confuse matters,” Stuart Vevers sheepishly prefaced our conversation about Coach’s new resort collection, “we don’t call this resort, we call it winter.” The reason for the renaming comes from the fact that Vevers puts his customers first and, well, he doesn’t see them as yachting come December, but instead going out to holiday parties, and gathering with...