A collector's eye is built, not bought — and the first ten works cost less than the first one would if you waited.
How scattered interests become a coherent practice — and why coherence, not talent, is what gets a young artist noticed.
Where dressing finds its references.
The Met's Costume Institute holds more than 33,000 garments and accessories, and its fifty-year project of exhibiting dress as art history changed how both museums and fashion houses understand the garment.
Grayson Perry accepted the 2003 Turner Prize in a dress as his alter ego Claire, and has spent four decades making ceramics and tapestries that read British class through what people wear.
In August 1965 a Paris couture show sent out a handful of shift dresses built to hide their seams inside a painter's grid — and made a career-long argument about where fashion ends and art begins.
Unmade hair, bare skin and a deliberate streak of imperfection defined the season's backstage.
Four artificial nail systems, ranked by what actually matters: how long they last, what they cost, and what they take from the nail underneath.
Contouring is less a trend than a drafting exercise — shadow placed where light would fall, and adjusted face by face.
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons dropped trousers and dresses entirely. Here is how their method translates into everyday dressing.
A single dress makes a long journey before anyone photographs it. Here is the route it travels, from first drawing to final fitting.
Before the logo, before the label, there is the join — and the houses that sew their names into it.
Casting and hiring decisions are made in under a minute. Here is what to show, what to cut, and how to sequence the work so the right image lands first.
Before the silhouette, before the show, there is the cloth. Fabric selection is the quiet decision that tells you who a house is.
A mid-career retrospective now on view in New York gathers two decades of 3D-printed, mycelium-patterned, and bioluminescent couture, arguing that van Herpen's real subject was never a single material but a method.
The schedule, the buyers, the seats, and the machinery that decides what reaches the shop floor.
The bias cut is cloth turned diagonally — laid at 45 degrees to the woven grain — so that it drapes rather than hangs, stretching with the body's movement and clinging to its contour without a single dart, and the…
The designer who spent 26 years at Alexander McQueen — 13 of them as creative director — takes the creative direction of Givenchy, per the house's announcement in December 2024.
Costume Art, opening May 10, 2026, is the first show in the Costume Institute's new Condé M. Nast Galleries, staging nearly 400 garments and artworks together to argue for fashion's place within art history.
Haute couture is not a compliment in France; it is an administrative status.
Working in Paris from 1912 to 1940, Vionnet built her house on one technical argument — cloth cut across its grain drapes instead of hangs — and then, a decade into her fame, quietly cut against her own signature.
Fashion's foothold inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art rests on a single night of fundraising.
In 1966, London's most photographed teenager attributed her signature eye to a childhood toy, not a makeup artist — a small, documented detail that explains why the look outlived the decade that made it famous.
The designer died on September 4, 2025 with a succession structure already in his will, leaving the largest founder-led house in Italian fashion to test whether his discipline survives its author.
The Dublin-born designer has spent a decade and a half turning Irish references, pearls and tulle into an archive-obsessed wardrobe, tested at scale by her 2021 guest collection for Jil Sander.
Plucked to a line in the 1920s, bleached to invisibility on today's runways — the eyebrow as fashion's most reliable pendulum.
Mirrored mazes, supermarkets and a fountain runway — how the designed room speaks for the collection before the first look moves.