The Revenge of the Niche Fashion Magazine

The Revenge of the Niche Fashion Magazine

On a snowy night just before Valentine’s Day, Cultured magazine gave a party for its February-March 2025 edition. It was held at Quarters, a TriBeCa space that is both a furniture store and a wine bar. The place was packed. The cover star, the actress Cristin Milioti, was there, and …

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The Revenge of the Niche Fashion Magazine

The Revenge of the Niche Fashion Magazine

On a snowy night just before Valentine’s Day, Cultured magazine gave a party for its February-March 2025 edition. It was held at Quarters, a TriBeCa space that is both a furniture store and a wine bar. The place was packed. The cover star, the actress Cristin Milioti, was there, and …

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Chemena Kamali of Chloé: The Queen of the Blouse

Chemena Kamali of Chloé: The Queen of the Blouse

On the second floor of a 19th-century villa near the Bois de Boulogne, overlooking a garden housing a child’s trampoline and various plastic scooters, there is a room filled with blouses. Hundreds of blouses. Lace blouses from the Victorian era and big-shouldered blouses from the 1980s. Blouses in paisley and …

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Agnès b.: The Shop That Changed What We Wear

Agnès b.: The Shop That Changed What We Wear

Paris is a place for revolutions: the sci-fi fantasies of Cardin and Courrèges, Jean Paul Gaultier’s skirts pour homme and the inflated gothic rituals of Rick Owens. All wild, memorable and museum-worthy. But it may be Agnès Troublé who has changed what we wear today, more so than any fierce …

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Haider Ackermann Leads Tom Ford Into a New Era

Haider Ackermann Leads Tom Ford Into a New Era

One evening in late January, Haider Ackermann, the new designer at Tom Ford, was tucked into a velvet banquette at La Reserve, the discreet, tryst-worthy hotel not far from the Élysée Palace in Paris. He was doing his best impression of Tom Ford, the man. “Hello, Haider,” Mr. Ackermann purred, …

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Oh, This Old, Tattered, Moth-Eaten Thing?

Oh, This Old, Tattered, Moth-Eaten Thing?

When Abe Lange lived in the East Village of Manhattan, he would sometimes take his breakfast in Tompkins Square Park, wearing his favorite zip-up hoodie. You might say it had seen better days: The black jersey had faded to a charcoal ombré, and large portions of the front and sleeves …

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Leigh Bowery Arrives at Tate Modern, Without Labels

Leigh Bowery Arrives at Tate Modern, Without Labels

“If you label me, you negate me,” the performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery said in 1993, one year before his death at age 33. Maybe it is this resistance to easy categorization that has meant Bowery never quite became a household name. His cultural influence, though, is beyond …

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What Happened to the Stigma of Wearing Fur?

What Happened to the Stigma of Wearing Fur?

A few weeks before the Manhattan Vintage Show opened this month, its owner, Amy Abrams, was predicting a “fur-a-palooza,” with vendors fielding an uptick in demand for fur. “It’s happening now,” she said. The racks of fox, mink and Mongolian at booths, including the Igala NYC and the Jennie Walker …

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At the Louvre, the Biggest Fashion Show in Paris

At the Louvre, the Biggest Fashion Show in Paris

Sixteenth-century ornamental timepieces frame a crystal-studded metal bodysuit by Thierry Mugler. Gilded silver reliquaries with sculpted hands stand next to a pair of Hermès gloves. A ceramic hand warmer from Faenza, Italy, that looks like a book is twinned with a Chanel clutch that looks like a book. This is …

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