Fashion
Why Don’t People Dress Up to Go Out Anymore?
It has become the style to dress down when eating out, even at fine dining restaurants. Why is this, and when did it start? When my wife and I go out, we always wear our best. I think it makes the experience more enjoyable. Haven’t we lost something by abandoning all formality? — Michael, Palm…
So Long, Winter Whites. Red and Black Are the Colors of the Season.
So Long, Winter Whites. Red and Black Are the Colors of the Season.
Fashion Is a Serious Business. Once a Year, It Makes Time for Ridiculousness.
Of all the unexpected gifts this job has given me, perhaps the greatest one is the opportunity to be a visitor in the worlds of design and fashion. Anyone who has been allowed entree into a realm they never knew well (but were always curious to know better) understands that much of the fun of…
Spring Fashion That’s as Light as Air
In Fashion shows the best of the season’s runway collections, as seen in the pages of T Magazine. Models: Aminata Ndoye At Next Management, Jeannie Pfeiffer At Women Management. Hair: Tamara McNaughton. Makeup: Alex Levy. Casting: Bert Martirosyan. Set designer: Alice Jacobs. Production: Shay Johnson Studio. Photo assistants: Shen Williams-Cohen, Arjay Estanislao. Styling assistants: Jasmine…
Vacheron Constantin Marks Yet Another Anniversary
As one of the world’s oldest watchmakers, Vacheron Constantin has a long tradition of marking anniversaries with commemorative watches. This year the house is celebrating the 270th anniversary of its 1755 founding with a series of new watches, the first being a stainless steel version of its Historiques 222. And that model was a contemporary…
Tinted Lip Balms to Brighten Winter Days
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Inside Fashion’s Mysterious St. Catherine’s Day Celebrations
Every year on or around the 25th of November, the French fashion industry hosts a kind of runway show just for itself. Wearing mostly green-and-yellow hats — the color combination is said to represent either family and hope or faith and wisdom, depending on which milliner you ask — young people from the Parisian luxury…
The Jewelry That Keeps Secrets
The Loquet jewelry company in London has made shopping for lockets a playful experience. The starting point is a 14-karat gold and clear sapphire-crystal case, which can be filled with any number of charms, from jeweled fruits to a martini glass. In search of a sentimental gift for his wife, Dillon Newell, a British businessman,…
Sometimes the Best Gift Is Time Alone
If self-reflection comes better through a piece of clay, La Meridiana in Tuscany offers classes all year long, including a weeklong hand building course (€1,700 [$1,770] tuition) in March and a course on creating contemporary porcelain jewelry (€1,900 tuition) with Luca Tripaldi, a sculptor, in July. Finding inner peace and meditation in a countryside setting…