The climate crisis has spawned an unlikely new area of fashion entrepreneurship. By Whitney Bauck Before last year, Whitney McGuire hadn’t seriously considered stashing an emergency survival kit in her home. But as 2020’s record-breaking fire season descended on the…
Read MoreThe Strange Allure of Pool-Cleaning Videos
Some TikTok creators have become successful on the video platform by dancing, singing or performing everyday tasks. Miles Laflin has amassed 11 million followers by cleaning pools. Better known by his moniker, @thep00lguy, Mr. Laflin, a swimming pool engineer from…
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PARIS — The last year and a half of being stuck to the small screen for work and pleasure, desperate for any new piece of escapism be it blockbuster or art house or glossy series, has to have changed forever…
Read MoreThierry Mugler Returns to Paris With ‘Couturissime’
It’s been 20 years since Thierry Mugler, the enfant terrible of 1980s and ’90s Paris fashion who turned fashion shows into rock events, stepped down from his namesake company. But he didn’t retire. He designed costumes for Cirque du Soleil’s…
Read MoreA New Mash-Up at Dior: Go-Go Boots and Scuba Shoes
Fashion Week is back in full force, and there’s a lot to see. Blink (or scroll too fast on Instagram) and you’ll miss the details: tiny bags, tall shoes, feathered hats, leather capes and diamond dog collars. So as part…
Read MoreGeorge Malkemus, Who Pushed Manolos to New Heights, Dies at 67
George Malkemus, the steady, sunny Texan who helped turn the designs of an eccentric shoe designer named Manolo Blahnik into a global empire, and then attempted the same business alchemy with the actress Sarah Jessica Parker for her own shoe…
Read MoreA British Men’s Wear Designer With Jamaican Roots
Name: Bianca Saunders Age: 28 Hometown: London Currently Lives: In her family’s house in South London, with her parents and four of her six siblings. Claim to Fame: Ms. Saunders is a rising British men’s wear designer who collaborated with…
Read MoreBushwig Grows Up
The annual festival celebrated 10 years of drag, queerness and artistry this month, but some local queens want more. Photographs by Camila Falquez By Julia Carmel Bushwig, the end-of-summer drag weekend extravaganza held each year in New York, was born…
Read MoreRemembering Richard Buckley
There’s a photograph in Tom Ford’s house in Beverly Hills, a Polaroid of him with his husband, Richard Buckley, who died last weekend at 72 after more than 30 years of health issues resulting from cancer. The picture was taken…
Read More‘The Most Beautiful Proposal’
When Leslie Arffa was asked what she thought were Samir Doshi’s best qualities, she hesitated, cleared her throat, and hesitated some more before starting to cry. “He’s incredibly kind and thoughtful,” she said. “I never met anyone before that I…
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