With flavors of both a bow tie and a cravat, the ribbed scarf knotted around the neck of Evan Naurais immediately stood out when we crossed paths in Paris on a Saturday in early February. It was a dapper finishing touch to a tactile outfit that also involved a fuzzy, olive green jacket and stylishly…
Butter yellow has been applied to a wide spread of items lately: cocktail dresses, jeans, jackets, hair clips, handbags and stand mixers. It has been slathered onto the walls of restaurants and home kitchens, and has oozed onto red carpets and the stages of major pop-music tours. Like the dairy product the color is named…
Paris is a place for revolutions: the sci-fi fantasies of Cardin and Courrèges, Jean Paul Gaultier’s skirts pour homme and the inflated gothic rituals of Rick Owens. All wild, memorable and museum-worthy. But it may be Agnès Troublé who has changed what we wear today, more so than any fierce iconoclast. When she introduced Agnès…
Wardrobe changes are old hat in Hollywood, but on Oscar night, when opining on a celebrity’s choice of attire is sport, changing outfits becomes big news. Last year, after winning her second Oscar for her role in “Poor Things,” Emma Stone arrived in a floaty Louis Vuitton dress, changing from the strapless number by the…
It was men’s fashion week in Paris, and the Archivist Store was as busy as Gare du Nord. That is, if the train depot were frequented solely by people who could tell a mere North Face jacket from a North Face Purple Label one. Inside, a boutique owner from New York stood at the counter…
As a man who writes about clothes, and keeps up with changing tastes, I’ve had to consider all kinds of fashion-related anxieties. Will cropped pants make me look short? Does a yellow shirt wash me out? Should I try to pull off cargo pants (again)? But I wasn’t anticipating this one: What is the right…
Celebrities have been thin on the ground in Milan, in part thanks to fashion week’s conjunction with the Oscars, but a group came out for Prada, including Gal Gadot, Maya Hawke, Simone Ashley and Hunter Schafer. Ms. Schafer was wearing a pink top and gray briefs under a black satin coat, about a week after…
When the rock ’n’ roll jeweler Stephen Webster was designing his new London flagship, he decided there was only one motif strong enough for one of its walls: a fish. So a backlit stained-glass window of a Japanese fighting fish will dominate the No Regrets bar at the four-level space, scheduled to open in May…
One of the tests of a great fashion brand is how its clothes look off the runway, on regular people — not celebrities paid to wear the clothes, or models styled in the clothes, but fans who most likely put their money where their taste was, bought a piece, and wear it as they want….