Sneakers from the NikeCraft collection. “I don’t want to sound like a Luddite, but I’m very skeptical of big business,” the artist Tom Sachs said, talking about NikeCraft, a small collection he did with the shoemaker that he introduced with his exhibition, “Space Program: Mars,” now at the Park Avenue Armory. Mr. Sachs is no [...]
Vogue, via Associated PressVogue, May 2012. Beginning with their June issues, the editors of the 19 international editions of Vogue magazine have made a pact to stop using models under age 16 or those who, from the viewpoint of the editors, appear to have an eating disorder. In a somewhat unusual announcement, unusual in that [...]
Randy BrookePhilip Treacy, a milliner, shows fashion students how to create beauty from common objects. Philip Treacy, the milliner responsible to so many trembling heads, including some royal ones, was giving a hat-making demonstration when Suzy Menkes and I walked in. Ms. Menkes and I had just wrapped up a 90-minute dish with journalism students [...]
From left: Stephen Lovekin/Getty (3); Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg Here are the highlights from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, including the red carpet. The always busy Nicola Formichetti opens Nicopanda, a month-long pop up store at Lane Crawford, in Hong Kong this week. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the fashion director at Lincoln Center, is starting her own [...]
The CMYK shoe by hamansutra. It was serendipitous that a headphone cable fell on top of Haman Alimardani’s shoes while he was D.J.-ing one evening. The accident lent itself to his artful design: the CMYK shoe by the New York-based fashion label, hamansutra. The shoes feature stereo mini-jacks for laces. A fresh take on the [...]
Last night, more than 450 people gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria for a cocktail party and dinner to honor Bill Cunningham, The New York Times photographer, whose two columns, On the Street and Evening Hours, appear each week in Sunday Styles. The New York glitterati were out in force — Mercedes Bass, Annette de la Renta, [...]
Casey Kelbaugh for The New York TimesOutside Lincoln Center the during New York Fashion Week fall 2012 shows. It looks like the spring editions of New York Fashion Week will continue to commence on the first Thursday after Labor Day for the foreseeable future. Despite recent efforts to push back the beginning of the fashion [...]
Jennifer S. Altman for The New York TimesFred Distenfeld and his daughter Claire Distenfeld in their new shop. Jennifer S. Altman for The New York TimesFivestory. On Thursday afternoon, Fred Distenfeld looked unfazed and spotless in his suit as workmen carried slabs of polished stone into the town house at 18 East 69th Street. On [...]
There are risks to having a work party in your own home, as the Barneys New York chief executive Mark Lee discovered on Wednesday night when he invited a small crowd of editors to toast Alber Elbaz, once again, on the occasion of his 10th anniversary at Lanvin. Just as the party was going strong, [...]
MSNBCDonny Deutsch was chided for his blazer on “Morning Joe.” IT’S cruel April indeed. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have reportedly hooked up. That bombshell may finally ignite Mr. West’s fashion career, though it means the rest of us will have to hear from him what a design innovator he is and why he doesn’t [...]
