Virgil Abloh, Menswear’s Biggest Star
A profile of the designer, who died Sunday at 41.
Fashion
The Red-Pilling of Kitson
The boutique that defined early-aughts L.A. style has taken an unexpected turn.
All That Heaven Allows
A profile of Marc Jacobs.
Beige Ambition
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen grew up to make New York’s most desirable clothes. But can even perfection survive the pandemic?
Brazilian Butt Lift: Behind the World's Most Dangerous Cosmetic Surgery
The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise?
Sweatpants Forever
How the fashion industry collapsed.
James Is a Girl
The strange life of a 16-year-old model.
Lady Kimora
The Baby Phat designer returns.
My Father’s Fashion Tips
The writer on his father’s religious devotion to personal style. Among the maxims: “the turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear”; “there is nothing like a fresh burn”; and “always wear white to the face.”
The Woman Who Has Styled Justin Bieber, Anita Hill, and the iPod
A profile of a dresser of celebrities.
Important Things Are Happening to Jason Dill
Jason Dill is rebuilding one of the coolest skate brands on the planet, one hand-cut collage at a time.
The Eyeful Tower
A profile of André Leon Talley.
Karl Lagerfeld, Boy Prince of Fashion
A profile of the designer, who died on February 19, 2019.
The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini
Who is the rightful inventor of the blockbuster swimsuit known as the Kiini?
Who Gives a Puck About Sports Merch?
How the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the expansion hockey team now in the Stanley Cup Finals, built a brand from scratch.
Style Is an Algorithm
On the future of personal taste.
What Does She Think She Looks Like?
“This isn’t an essay about clothes, exactly, nor is it about fashion, quite. It is about women and clothes and something that happens between them that we could think of as a kind of third rail of female experience.”
The Excessive Vision of Donatella Versace
How to run a fashion empire.
The Killer’s Trail
The many identities of Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace’s murderer.
West Africa's Most Daring Designer
On Amaka Osakwe and life as a woman in Lagos.
How to Sell a Billion-Dollar Myth Like a French Girl
On the business of an idea.
Will I Get A Ticket?
A conversation with Lucinda Chambers shortly after she was fired from British Vogue, where she had been fashion editor for the last 25 years.
The Secrets of the 80-Year-Old Chinese Runway Model
How did an obscure artist who survived the Cultural Revolution become a viral sensation and suddenly the surreal, sexy center of Fashion Week?
How Clown Pants Saved My Life
An essay on clothing in uncertain times.
The Misfit
A profile of Rei Kawakubo, an artist of few words who changed women’s fashion.
