A pocket tee, a long sleeved tee, and a pair of slouchy utilitarian pants: It’s a uniform beloved of slackers, ravers, construction workers, surfers, normcorers (remember them?!), at one point in my life, me, and now, apparently, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. The two opening looks of their The Row presentation held in a series of … Read more
It is a gloriously sunny September morning in Paris, and something about rue du Mont Thabor—an anonymous street sandwiched between rue de Rivoli, in the shadow of the Louvre, and rue Saint-Honoré, lined with boutiques from Balenciaga, Armani, Moynat, and Burberry, et al—is looking particularly kissed by the light. At 1 rue du Mont Thabor, … Read more
Rewind back to Paris Fashion Week in March when The Row radically requested that guests refrain from using their phones during the show. And how this confirmed the brand’s hold over everyone, the request respected. Whether out of residual observance or simply owing to the tedium of tapping, I arrived at The Row’s Paris headquarters … Read more
Oh, old friend, how I’ve missed you. A year from last being in Paris for the shows, 12 months since last writing about The Row, and here I am, sitting once more at a show for Mary-Kate and Ashley’s label that has been doing quiet luxury—and sometimes not so quiet luxury—for so long now that … Read more
