With rave reviews for his performance as Levee, a Blues trumpeter in 1920s Chicago, in the film adaptation of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom—and now with a Screen Actors Guild nomination to go along with the Golden Globe nod he received on Wednesday—Chadwick Boseman may be inching ahead of his rivals in … Read more
If the most recent spring and resort collections are any indication, color, and wearing more of it, is on the mind. Even Vogue’s most ardent fans of all-black ensembles, fashion news editor Steff Yotka and editor Alexandra Gurvitch, are resolving to add more color to their wardrobes this year. “Nobody feels better about a sleek … Read more
There is an inherent sexiness, beauty, and romance about Dilara Findokoglu’s designs. Sometimes her voluminous dresses read haunting and spiritual, all black taffeta and ruffles; other times they are revealing through torso cut-outs and pelvic bone-exposing slits. Both ideas are central to Findikoglu’s mission that “a woman can do whatever she wants in Dilara Findikoglu”: … Read more
This collection was 95% deadstock and 100% dress up: Kym Ellery scoured her archives and those of her suppliers for the raw materials for this catalogue of archetypes. “It’s about exploring different personalities, the different characters you can assume,” said the designer from her new showroom in Paris’s 11th arrondissement. “It was about diving into … Read more
The experience of quarantine has had profound physical implications. Designers have responded with clothes that address corporal needs: the masks that few of us even considered a year ago, the glut of sweatpants and leggings, loungewear. But what about our mental needs? Fleece feels good, but what about our feelings? As she worked on her … Read more
It was cold but clear as Copenhagen staged its first wholly digital fashion week. In the collections there were lots of cozy knits and roomy suits. On the city’s cobbled streets photographer Adam Katz Sinding documented many looks with a protective, cool edge. Among them we saw plaids, patents, and puffers personalized in many ways.
Super Bowl halftime performers are one of the best parts of the big event. Sure, football fans tune in for the actual game, but non-sport followers are here for the show. Over the years, the half-time intermission has grown into more and more of a spectacle; each musician to grace the field’s stage seems to … Read more
There’s a groundswell of creative energy in Oslo and Holzweiler exported some of that to Copenhagen for fall. Its collection was inspired by the sculpture-bridge-gallery that is The Twist, an architectural marvel designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group less than 50 miles outside of Oslo. Designers Maria Skappel Holzweiler and Duy Dinh Ngo extrapolated concepts, … Read more
“I like to do clothes that are easy to wear, but add my kind of twist or bizarreness” to them, said Carin Rodebjer on a call from Stockholm. This season she extended that philosophy to documenting her collection, engaging a Parisian photography duo, Chaumont-Zaerpour, who shoot with film. Their images, plus some moving ones, were … Read more
Growing up in a small town in Denmark, Ganni’s creative director Ditte Reffstrup says MTV was her only source for pop culture and style. “There were no magazines, but there was MTV,” she said back in 2019. “My window to the U.S. was Madonna.” Reffstrup has been deeply passionate about music ever since, seeing it … Read more