Big heels, bigger wigs: The looks that made Dolly Parton a style icon
Adorned in rhinestones and elevating her 5-foot stature with sky-high heels and voluminous blonde wigs, Dolly Parton often joked, “it costs a lot of money to look this cheap!” Parton’s looks on stage and off reflected both her Tennessee roots and her embodiment of over-the-top feminine glamour, an aesthetic articulated in her album title and […]
A closer look at the costumes of ‘Rosebush Pruning’
So intimately tethered is the American family at the center of Karim Aïnouz’s latest movie “Rosebush Pruning” – by blood, desire, and an excessive interest in designer labels – that the arrival of any outsider would guarantee friction. When Elle Fanning’s character Martha (the girlfriend of eldest son Jack, portrayed by Jamie Bell), is introduced […]
Is Erling Haaland our most glamorous soccer player?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. How do you define glamour? Like the ever-elusive concept of personal style, glamour is often intangible, innate, even aura-based. It’s in the details: the […]
Anne Hathaway’s maternity style and the problem with criticizing it
EDITOR’S NOTE: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. In a post-Rihanna world, we all like to talk about how maternity wear — or at least the expectations of how pregnant women should […]
Pamela Anderson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ben Affleck and more stars at the 2026 Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival, which typically sees Hollywood A-listers travel by boat to the little island of Lido every September, will draw to a close tomorrow. So far, much of the fashion at the 10-day event has been muted, elegant and pared-back. Black gowns have been abundant on the red carpet — from the festival’s […]
DVF’s new designer is playing with your mother’s wrap dress
Every few seasons, New York Fashion Week is in need of a savior. Someone who shakes up what can often be a monotonous cycle of all that goes into the jampacked show calendar. Someone who reminds a likely very jaded and fickle crowd of editors, buyers, and industry observers that fashion can still be thoughtful, […]
Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga: Highlights from Paris Haute Couture
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this feature ran in the Big Style newsletter — a weekly portal into a world where clothing meets culture. Sign up here. Paris — My official business in Paris this week was to attend the haute couture shows, but throughout my time in the French capital I kept bumping into art. […]
Kaia Gerber and Hayes Warner embrace ’80s excess in ‘The Shards’
In FX’s “The Shards,” a group of friends at an elite prep school in Los Angeles are entering their senior year — and the stakes are as high as their opulent wardrobe budgets. The year is 1981 and shoulder pads are all the rage. A serial killer named “The Trawler” prowls in the background, targeting […]
Is Sant Ambroeus’ princess cake the world’s most fashionable dessert?
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this feature ran in the Big Style newsletter — a weekly portal into a world where clothing meets culture. Sign up here. New York has a bad habit of inflicting trend culture upon the masses — especially when it comes to food. You can almost immediately identify a year based […]
The Met’s Galliano show is already controversial. Can it be done right?
“I love Hitler,” the designer John Galliano said to a woman across from him at a Paris bar. “People like you would be dead today.” That was in 2010. Galliano was a legend at the time, the British genius who had helped reinvent Givenchy and Dior. When the video of his antisemitic tirade emerged in […]