PARIS — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are not the only people thinking about extraterrestrial exploration. The promise of alternate dimensions has long captured a chunk of the fashion imagination — none more so than
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A Casual Guide to Paris Shopping
Paris is a city of easy pleasures. Wine, cheese, croissants. What’s not to love? Isn’t that what Netflix built the popularity of the très unrealistic “Emily in Paris” on? Except the thing about Paris is
Read moreYour Pristine Hermès Bag, to Some, Looks Tacky
Jenny Walton had coveted an Hermès bag for years before finally buying one last fall. “They’re never going to go out of style,” Ms. Walton, 33, offered as a reason she wanted to own one
Read moreLet Us Now All Praise Wearability
PARIS — Like many people, Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton women’s wear, started really traveling again last year — for work, for fun — after being mostly housebound during Covid lockdowns. And
Read moreDasha Zhukova’s Artful Rise
“If there’s one place in the world that’s fighting today for freedom and democracy, where people — men, women and children, everybody — are dying as we are having dinner right now, that is Ukraine,”
Read moreThe Best Looks From the Screen Actors Guild Awards
Viewers of the livestream of the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards could be forgiven for having a hard time keeping up with the onslaught of outfits on the red carpet. Unlike the Oscars or
Read moreIntimate Encounters
PARIS — For so long (even, maybe especially, after the brief Covid hiatus) so much of fashion has been focused on being big — big shows, big sets, big stars, big followings, big growth —
Read moreWhat Do the Brands We Wear Say About Us?
Wearing pieces from a brand to its runway show has long been a custom of fashion week. But in Milan, perhaps more than in any other city, this trend is more noticeable — and when
Read moreGetting a Charge Out of a Drone Instructor
Chelsea Anais Wilson was on her way to meet her cousins at a magic show at Illusions Bar & Theater in downtown Baltimore in May 2019 when her phone ran out of juice. “I was
Read moreIs This Fashion’s Most Knocked-Off Shoe Design?
MILAN — Being the height of fashion for 50 years is quite a claim. Cleo, the fanciful shoe designed by the Venetian haute cobbler René Caovilla, with its sinuous strap coiling up the ankle, is
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