On an overcast Friday evening in Shinjuku, a gaggle of 100 fashionable 20-somethings are sipping green tea highballs as they pore over the racks of clothes and accessories at The Four Eyed, one of Tokyo’s cutting-edge, underground select shops. The event is for a pop-up by Shop Beeens, a vintage...
Similarly, Fflur Roberts, head of luxury goods at Euromonitor International, pinpoints global wealth expansion in emerging markets as a core driver of the new yacht economy. In these growing regions, the number of wealthy individuals has risen 300% since 2005, and another 2.2 million are forecast to join the “affluent”...
If summer 2026 is the summer of sport, for fashion brands, it’s also the summer of WAGs — the wives and girlfriends of high-profile athletes. As the two industries continue to converge and more viewers than ever rally behind their favorite teams and players, brands also need to be watching...
You can’t buff down Alessandro Michele’s eccentricities and expect him to emerge a minimalist. Quirk is not a detachable accessory in the Michele wardrobe; it’s stitched into every seam. His Valentino carries that off-kilter charge. To be fair, this is how creative directors now operate when parachuted into grand old...
Olympian Mondo Duplantis and model Desiré Inglander first connected in a very Swedish fashion. “We met for the first time on midsummer 2020,” Mondo tells Vogue. A few months later, the Swedish American pole vaulter needed to return to the States. First, however, he had to reach back out to...
Hot on the heels of a year of freaky shoes—a term popularized by fashion analyst Mandy Lee (or “Old Loser in Brooklyn,” as she’s known online to her almost 1 million followers across Instagram and TikTok)—we met Matthieu Blazy’s heel-only Chanel sandal and reached peak freak.So what’s next? An equally...
The beauty of summer shopping: many of the season’s sales start well before prime vacation season arrives. That means, if you shop the best summer sales, you can pick up warm-weather pieces you’ll be able to pack immediately. Whether you’re prepping for a jaunt to the south of France or...
When it comes to bone health, calcium has long been viewed as the star of the show. Though still important, it’s actually only one small piece of the puzzle—especially if you’re over 40 (your bone mass peaks around age 30). During perimenopause, estrogen levels begin to decline, speeding up bone...
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