Just a week ago, Kim Jones marched out onto an ice rink-size runway in Paris, taking a bow at the conclusion of his latest show as the men’s creative director at Dior. That show would be his last. On Friday, Mr. Jones, a British fashion designer who has held that role since 2018, announced he…
As the curtain went up in the pitch-black theater, glowing red words ran like an English Lit ticker tape across a black digital screen — “eccentricity, gothic, occultism, Madame Butterfly, existentialism” — in a continuous, random and unceasing stream. Then a woman in a Harlequin ball gown, with a skirt so big it seemed more…
At least one of the fashion industry’s great open questions has been answered. On Wednesday morning, hours after the men’s fall fashion shows concluded in Paris, the Belgian designer Glenn Martens was named creative director of Maison Margiela, replacing John Galliano, the illustrious couturier who bowed out of the brand in December. Mr. Martens is…
As a whole, this sartorial tug of war, cleanly cleaved at the waistline, was one of the sharpest, most digestible ideas of the entire season. It delivered fantasy and wit in a manner that few fashion shows — preoccupied with getting those hit sneakers and bags in a shopper’s field of view — try to…
It has been described as the most famous watch in the world. Some say it is the most valuable. And now, for the first time in decades, the pocket watch that Abraham-Louis Breguet made for Marie Antoinette has traveled from its home in Israel for public exhibition, in London. A great deal of mystery surrounds…
Mr. McElherron noted that anyone should be wary of purchasing an expensive timepiece at auction without examining it first: “The problem is we don’t know what condition these watches are in and the images are really poor.” Dirty Laundry A month before the auction, several officers gathered around a conference table in Chief Officer Gubbin’s…
So begins the year of fashion change. First out of the gate: Lanvin, where Peter Copping, who took the creative reins in September, wasn’t just tasked with giving an old name a reboot because, you know, consumers were bored and the bags just weren’t selling — he essentially had to resuscitate it. For while Lanvin…
Ariana Simone, left, and Chauncie Parchment had a certain coolness about them as they were walking along Canal Street in Manhattan on a Sunday in early January. Wearing shades of lavender, blue, orange and green, they brought to mind the palette of a spring day, as well as the colors of the New York Knicks….
It was Day 1 of the couture shows in a chilly Paris, and the Schiap pack were tottering around the Petit Palais in their gold-toe shoes and anatomical gold jewelry, swinging their bejeweled Face bags and waiting for the Schiaparelli show to start. That they were a little — um, overdressed for 10 a.m. on…