For Jean Paul Gaultier, asking what came first, his love for fashion or film, is akin to the classic chicken-or-egg debate. As a self-proclaimed “child of the TV” in the late 1960s, he grew up as mesmerized by specials dedicated to haute couture fashion shows as reruns of old movies. “I didn’t want to go … Read more
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to win Wimbledon, run The Washington Post, or get drunk with Jimmy Buffett? Through the best autobiographies and celebrity memoirs, we can access gripping true stories told in the words of the people who lived through them. Translating experience into language is a creative act. Autobiography can be … Read more
A strange thing happens to time during Stereophonic, playwright David Adjmi and director Daniel Aukin’s sensational play at the John Golden Theatre in New York. The show’s three hours and 10 minutes collapse a full year, from June 1976 to June 1977, that a band—made up of vocalist Diana (Sarah Pidgeon), lead guitarist Peter (Tom … Read more
The Made in California collection will sit in harmony with his ERL main line, which is produced with Dover Street Market in Comme des Garçons factories around the world, and will launch exclusively on a new ERL e-shop. The pieces are more luxurious (and obviously more expensive) versions of the items ERL is known for, … Read more
Powerful, yes—but can Americans relate, will they want to give a care when we have our own problems, what does Grenfell have to do with us? Was it even covered in the American media at the time? Although nowhere near as much as it was in London’s news outlets, over the years there have been … Read more
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Marshall and Bernardin were certainly prescient when they decided to launch ReSee. It’s almost hard to imagine, given how much the pre-loved has become part of how we shop and style ourselves. Ten years ago, we were, for the most part, still shopping in an era where vintage was either super-fancy and expensive, destined for … Read more
Leaning on one another is what community is all about. Looking around the office—which is a microcosm of the wider world of Vogue staffers—it’s hard to find a moment when somebody is not asking for, or giving, advice. The questions are about things as simple as Where to go to lunch?, or as grand as … Read more
To use a daring metaphor, it has been like giving birth through a Caesarean section — man born from man! A huge effort and honor. When I was proposed to set up an exhibition at Museo Correr in the salons that Carlo Scarpa renovated in the 1950s, I almost fainted for the emotion. In these … Read more
Another brand making its Salone del Mobile debut this season was Miu Miu—and in a clever variation on the format employed by its big sister brand, Prada, they unveiled the Miu Miu Literary Club, a two-day program of panels and talks spotlighting the work of a pair of overlooked women authors. The venue couldn’t have … Read more
On arriving at the show, visitors will first see a Brancusi bronze placed into dialogue with the Worth sleeping beauty. A contemporary garment that the Worth dress helped to inspire—an Alessandro Michele piece for Gucci—will be displayed nearby. Visitors will progress into a space filled with botanicals on painted silk—a Chinese technique imitated by Europeans … Read more
